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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 




HARRISON GREEN. 



THE 



SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN 



AS DEFINED BY 



HARRISON GREEN 



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PRESS OF J. WARD, Jr., 

Lawrence, Mass. 

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Copyright, 1898, 

By Harrison Green, 

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I AM A SERVANT OF GOD, CALLED TO 
PREACH THE GOSPEL. 



Having been a Christian for many years, studying 
the wisdom of God and praying to him to teach me 
his will, it was on May 8, 1893, on Monday morning, 
at fifteen minutes past five o'clock, that I awoke from 
my sleep and, commencing to pray as I always do before 
getting up to kneel in my morning prayer, I heard a 
soft, keen voice say to me, " Come, Harrison." When 
the voice spoke to me it was at my bedside ; there was 
no one in the room but myself, and I was shocked when 
I heard the voice ; I did not know what to think of it. 
I had heard many times during my life that many 
persons are warned of a sudden death, but I did not 
know what God had called me for, so I commenced to 
pray to God to make it known to me what he had 
called me for, and I prayed, " O Lord ! hast thou called 
me to warn me of a sudden death, or what hast thou 
called me for ? O Lord, I pray to thee, in the name 
of Jesus Christ, let me know what thou hast called me 
for " ; and I continued to pray all day, and when the 
night came I again knelt down to pray, and when I 



I AM A SERVANT OF GOD. 



got up and lay down I had a vision, and a beautiful 
man came and said to me, " I want you to go with me 
to preach the gospel," and then he vanished from my 
sight, and I saw him no more ; when I arose from my 
bed, the same words seemed to be speaking within me, 
and the Spirit has been with me from that day unto 
the present time, to preach the plain and the whole 
gospel; and I will preach the whole and straight 
gospel, in season and out of season, every chance that 
I can get, until I receive the everlasting crown of 
glory. 



PREFACE. 



My object in writing this book is to explain to all 

who want to know, what the soul of a man is ; so I will 

prove to all who read my book that there are three 

spirits united in man that contain the soul, and when 

man dies, in death his soul is quickened and the three 

spirits are then united in one spirit, and leave his 

body. Then his soul is a spirit, because it is without 

the body of the flesh. God has answered my prayers 

and has revealed the soul to me, and has shown to 

me what it is, and I feel that it is my duty to let it be 

known, as there are so many people who do not believe 

that they have a soul to be saved. I am of the Baptist 

denomination, but I believe in all churches that build 

their foundation upon Jesus Christ, for it is not the 

name of the church that we belong to that will save us, 

but if we will follow Jesus Christ we will do the will 

of our Father who is in heaven, and we will be saved 

from his wrath ; for Jesus Christ died upon the cross 

for all, and in and through him we are all saved ; he 

gave to his apostles the power to forgive sins, to let the 



PREFACE. 



world know that he was the Son of God, and had the 
power to give his apostles, so that they might forgive 
sins, that the world should know that he was God, the 
Creator of all things ; but he did not give the power to 
any one else, neither did he hand the power down from 
the apostles to any one else to forgive sins, so that no 
man can forgive sins, nor none but God, through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGK 

When I was a Boy 9 

On the Sea in the Storm 13 

The Soul and Spirit of Man 16 

The Life of Animals and All Living Things . . .22 

The Dream of Man while Sleeping 25 

Transfiguration of Jesus Christ 28 

Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus Prayed ... 30 
Mount Sinai, where God gave the Commandments to 

Moses 32 

Heaven and the City of God is the Christian's Home . 35 

Wisdom given to Me by the Spirit 40 

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed 42 

God's Covenant with Jacob 44 

The Five Foolish Virgb^s 46 

Lesson; or, a Sermon to Sinners 48 

Spirits Coming and Going 55 

On the Word of God 59 

Sinners will be Punished 66 

The First Resurrection; the Soul and Body Uniting . 75 

Adam made a Quickening Spirit 77 

The Daily Sacrifice 81 



COxNTENTS. 



PAGE 

At the End of Time the World will be Destroyed . 84 

On Preaching the Gospel, — Pure and Straight Gospel . 89 

The Safety of the Church 97 

Prayers Answered by Judgment 108 

Vision and Nature. Nature is God and God is Nature . 120 

Avoid Sin 126 

Will Not Believe the Bible 131 

Eternity 134 

A Prayer 135 

The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus . . .137 

Sermon 146 



WHEN I WAS A BOY. 



A few words of my mother's teaching to me in my 
boyhood days that I had a Father in Heaven to 
serve : — 

When I was in my boyhood days, it seemed to me 
that one day I heard a voice say to me, " Look at the 
wonderful world in which you live, — nature in all its 
bloom " ; and it seemed to me that I heard the same 
voice say to me again, " There is something beyond 
this world that you cannot see now " ; and as I would 
be playing and enjoying myself every day, as a boy 
will do in his boyhood days, I heard the same voice 
still speaking within me, — " There is something 
beyond this world that you cannot see now." And I 
said to my mother, " Mother, there is a voice which 
tells me that there is something beyond this world 
that you cannot see now " ; and my mother said to me, 
" My son, it is your Father in Heaven whom you can- 
not see now ; he is telling you this to make you a good 
boy." I said, " Mother, where is this Father whom 
you say is my Father ? I cannot see him to speak to 
him, and neither can I hear his voice " ; and my mother 



10 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

said to me, " You have heard his voice "; and I said, 
" Mother, where is heaven ? " and she said, " It is above 
the earth, and if you will be a good boy, and grow up 
to be a good man, become a good Christian, and love 
your Father in Heaven and do his will, then by and 
by when you have finished the work that he has 
given you to do, then he will call you up in heaven 
to live with him forever." And my mother told me 
that the Bible would teach me all about him if I 
would read it and pray to him and ask him to for- 
give me for my sins, and find out what my Father's 
will is for me to do. 

Then, after my mother had told me all of these 
good things about my Father in Heaven, I would go 
out of the house every day and look at the trees, 
flowers, and the grass, and all the beauty of nature 
growing around me, and wonder to myself who made 
all of these wonderful things and placed them here and 
made them all grow ; and I would go down to the river 
and look at the beautiful waters there, and would say 
to myself, " If this Father of mine whom my mother 
has told me about, who is in heaven, made all of 
these beautiful things and the beautiful waters, he was 
a good and great Father, and I would like to see him 
now " ; and I would go outdoors in the summer time 
and lay down upon the grass and look up in the 



WHEN I WAS A BOY. II 



heavens at night at the stars and the moon, and won- 
der who made them all and placed them there up in 
the heavens, for they looked like little balls of fire 
giving lights in the heavens so high above my head. 
And as my mother taught me it seemed as if some- 
thing new would come to me every day, which led me 
to commence studying about my Father who is in 
heaven, who made and created all things thereof ; and 
as the time was passing away I was growing older, 
and one night I dreamed that my Father took an axe 
and knocked a piece out of the heavens and darkness 
prevailed all over the world. Then my Father said 
that there would not be any more light, that everybody 
would live in darkness forever and work in the dark. 
Then I awoke and told my mother of my dream, and 
my mother said to me, " My son, I always believed 
that God shows us many things in a dream which are a 
mystery to us and we cannot understand them"; and 
my mother said to me, " I think your dream is a 
warning for you to repent of your sins ; if you don't, 
you will never see your Father in Heaven when you 
die ; you will go to that bad place which the Bible tells 
you about, which is hell, where you will be punished." 
Then there came a fear upon me that my Father in 
Heaven would punish me if I did not repent and do 
his will, but I did not return to him then, because I 



12 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

was full of fun, playing around and doing many things 
that I had no right to do, until I was a big boy. Still 
the fear was upon me ; but when I went to a ball one 
Saturday night and stayed until Sunday morning, I 
knew that I had done wrong, and the fear of my 
Father in Heaven was upon me so that I was con- 
victed, and I commenced to pray to him so that 
he would hear my prayers and forgive me and save 
me from my sins and make me a child of his. I 
prayed for six weeks and a great love came from God 
and was shed abroad within my heart, and filled my 
soul with joy so that I loved every living thing upon 
the earth ; and when I felt that great love of God with- 
in my heart which I had never felt before, then I knew 
that I had been born of the Spirit, for the things 
which I had loved I hated, and the things that I had 
hated I loved ; so if any man has ever been born of the 
Holy Spirit he knows God, and never can forget him. 
No one can have the love of the Holy Spirit in their 
heart and soul and love the things of the world ; if 
they still love the things of the world, they have never 
been born of the Spirit ; so ever since the love of 
the Holy Ghost was shed abroad in my heart I have 
been journeying on through my life, loving God with 
all my heart and soul, making his church my home ; 
and he is with me everywhere, wherever I go. 



ON THE SEA IN A STORM. 



When I entered the United States Navy and went 
to sea, He was with me there in that dark and gloomy 
night when a terrible storm came up while crossing 
the ocean wide, when the ship was tossed by the great 
seas of the ocean like a duck upon the water ; all that 
I could see was the great seas rolling as high as 
mountains, bursting together in the air, shining like a 
blaze of fire in the dark night. I thought the ship 
would be lost. Every man was on deck doing all he 
could to save the ship. We were about midway of the 
ocean when I looked up to heaven to my God whom 
I believed in with all my heart, and said, " My Father, 
who art in heaven, save us this night, in the name of 
Jesus Christ, from this terrible storm, that we may 
reach the shore safely " ; and at that time it seemed to 
me that I heard a keen, soft voice say to me, " Trust 
in Jesus Christ and you shall be saved and reach the 
shore again." Then I had great faith in God ; with 
all my heart I trusted in him, and from that hour I 
believed that the hand of God was upon the ship that 
night, guiding her safely through the storm, that we 



14 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

might reach the shore again ; and that same night I 
saw men falling down upon their knees, praying to 
God to save them from the storm, but at the same 
time that they were praying it seemed to me that I 
could still hear the same keen, soft voice speaking to 
me to " trust in Jesus Christ and you shall be saved 
and reach the shore again " ; and my heart was filled 
with joy until we reached the shore again, where I 
sang praises to my God for the blessing which he 
had blessed us all with. 

Three months after the storm I was taken ill with 
rheumatism while on the ship, and I could not move 
my arms or my legs, or any part of my body for two 
months, and I was given up to die by the doctor 
and all of the sailors on board the ship ; but I knew 
that I had a God who had heard my prayer and 
had delivered me from my sins and had saved me 
from the great storm on that dark night while on 
the wide ocean, so my trust and faith were in Jesus 
Christ, and I prayed to my Father in Heaven to 
raise me up again and restore me to my health and 
strength, in the name of Jesus Christ ; and the same 
soft, keen voice which spoke to me that dark and 
stormy night on the ocean, when the ship was given 
up as lost, said to me again, " Believe and trust 
in Jesus Christ, and you shall rise in health and 



ON THE SEA IN A STORM. 1 5 

strength again," and that very moment I felt that I 
was getting better ; and ever since that time my faith 
and trust have been in Jesus Christ, united in him 
and trying to do the will of my Father in Heaven, and 
trying to find out what my spiritual life would be ; and 
while I was trying to find out my spiritual life the 
thought came to me, " What is my soul ? " and I com- 
menced to study it and to study mankind. 



THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAR 



One instance comes to my mind which convinced 
me that all men have souls. About sixteen years 
ago there was a man brought into a city where I 
lived and placed on exhibition ; his arms and legs 
were dead to him ; he could not move them ; they 
had almost turned to stone. I thought that I would 
go and see that poor man, so I went to see him 
and he was lying upon his back and could not move, 
nothing but his tongue in his head ; and I stood by 
the side of him looking down upon him as he was 
speaking to all who were standing around him. I 
wondered to myself how he could live in that con- 
dition, and the thought came to me, What is the soul 
of that poor man ? I can only hear him speak and 
see him breath while he is speaking. He said that 
he believed that God kept him alive to let the people 
who stood around him know that there is a God that 
could keep him alive in that condition, so that many 
would believe in God and be saved ; and I looked upon 
him once more and the thought came to me that his soul 
was a great power in him. I had been studying the 



THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 1 7 

soul of man many years before that time, but I com- 
menced to study the soul of man more than ever, and 
I have studied many years to find out what the nature 
and the soul of man is, that he has such a wonderful 
power and wisdom, more than any other creature that 
lives upon the earth. 

I have searched the Bible from the first chapter of 
Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation, and I find 
that the soul is spoken of over eight hundred times 
in the Bible, and yet the Bible does not tell what the 
soul of man is. I prayed to God to teach me and 
show me what the soul of man was, as there must be 
something more of man than his breath, and it was 
revealed in me as a voice speaking within me, that the 
mind and conscience and the will of man is his soul. 
These three are united in one living soul, and they are 
the life of man and contain the soul that has charge 
of the entire man, while the soul and the body are 
united together. And I continued to pray to God in 
faith, believing that he would give me wisdom and 
knowledge of the life in the spiritual world, that I 
might understand and know what the soul of man 
would be in the spiritual world, and the spiritual life. 
I got up believing that I would receive the blessing 
that I had asked for, and retired to my bed. Soon I 
was in a vision, and it seemed to me that I had died 



1 8 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

and my soul had left my body and formed in the 
image of a man with a beautiful spiritual body, with 
the same wisdom and knowledge that I had in my 
earthly body ; and God gave to me a mighty power so 
that I ascended up in the air of heaven and looked 
down upon my old body — it looked like a man made 
from the clay of the earth — which I lived in while I was 
in the image of a man ; and all that I felt which had left 
my earthly body was my mind and conscience and my 
will that was my soul, that will live forever and have 
charge of my entire body while the soul and body was 
united together, giving life to the entire body while 
living upon the earth. 

I praise God with all my heart and with all my soul 
because he has taught me and shown me that there is 
an everlasting, happy life to live in the world above, 
clothed with a beautiful spiritual body, a robe and a 
crown of everlasting life ; but while the soul and body 
are united together the soul has charge of the entire 
body, and speaks through it until God calls the soul 
home to rest; then the body must die, and as the 
breath leaves the body the soul is made a quicken- 
ing spirit of the life, and springs up from the old body 
like a grain of corn when it is planted, and is quick- 
ened by the old that died, and a new life and a new 
body springs up from the body which has died and 



THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. I9 

gone to dust. But I find that while the soul lives in 
the body of the flesh it represents the entire man, 
because God made the body of man from the dust of 
the earth, without life in him, and he united the soul 
and body together by breathing into his nostrils the 
breath of life, and man became a living soul, because 
the soul gives life to the body and has charge of the 
entire body of man ; therefore, while the soul lives in 
the body of the flesh, it represents the entire man, for 
when the soul leaves the body the body speaks and 
moves no more. So the intelligence of man is the soul 
that speaks through the body ; the material body, even 
while living, knows nothing, as though it were dead, 
but God has made the body of man in flesh and blood 
from the dust of the earth, therefore the body knows 
nothing and must return to dust from whence it came, 
and the soul which is made a quickening spirit by the 
death of the old body must return again to God who 
gave it. The body cannot live without the soul, it is 
dead ; but the soul lives without the body ; so, while the 
soul and body are united together, all wisdom and 
knowledge is given to the soul from God, to guide 
man in his life in this world, and to guide him in his 
spiritual life, and his spiritual life is his mind and con- 
science and his will, that never can die, nor never can 
they be scattered to the wind, for they are spiritual 
and contain the soul. 



20 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

A man can realize all that is life-living in his 
body which contains the soul ; he knows that he 
has a mind and conscience and a will, and he knows 
that his mind gives him his thoughts, and he knows 
that his conscience keeps him from doing wrong, 
and he knows that his will gives him a will to do ; 
he knows that his mind and his conscience and 
his will is all that he knows and feels that is living 
in the body that contains the soul, and that is life 
from God and God is life; and when God breathed 
in man's nostrils the breath of life it was the mind 
and conscience and the will which is the breath from 
God, and God is the life who breathed the breath of 
life in man's nostrils, and man became a living soul, 
and in the death of man his soul is made a quickening 
spirit and returns to God who gave it. There are 
three beings in one God : Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
united in one God, and God is a spirit ; so there are 
three living spirits in man ; his mind and his conscience 
and his will. They are united in one living soul and 
made a quickening spirit in the death of man, a 
spirit as God is a spirit ; but when God breathed the 
breath of life in the nostrils of man, he breathed the 
air of life in his nostrils so that he could breathe to 
keep the soul and body united, so that he could breathe 
and live. 



THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 21 

The soul of man is a mystery to the world because 
man has never known what it is. But God made 
man in his own image, and to be in the image of God 
the soul of man is quickened into a spirit in the 
death of man ; then man is a spirit, the image of God. 
Man was made his own free agent to do what he 
pleased. God gave him wisdom and knowledge to 
know right from wrong and to rule the earth, and man 
has broken the law of God and is now separated from 
God and is held in account for all the deeds that are 
done in the body ; But God has prepared a way for all 
who want to be saved to come unto him and be saved 
by his everlasting love for man. He died upon the 
cross to save us all from our sins, to live with him for- 
ever. The Bible speaks of the mind of man, his con- 
science and his will as three different names in man, 
but the Bible does not tell what the three united to- 
gether as one means. But God has answered my pray- 
ers and has revealed and shown me that the soul is 
the mind, the conscience, and the will of man, and can 
never die ; they are united in one. a living soul, so when 
man dies the three spirits will unite in one spirit as 
there are three spirits united in God : the spirit of the 
Father, the spirit of the Son, and the spirit of the 
Holy Ghost, — these three spirits are united in one 
God, and God is one spirit: Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost. 



THE LIFE OF ANIMALS AND ALL LIVING 

THINGS. 



There is another life of animals and all living 
things upon the earth ; that life is of God as the life 
of man is of God, and that life can never die, because 
God is the life of the animal ; you can kill the body 
but you cannot kill the life in the body neither can 
you destroy it ; for God is the life, and when you kill 
the animals you are not killing the life, you are only 
destroying the body and turning it into dust from 
whence it came ; for the life of the animal belongs to 
God and it must return to God again who gave it. 

There has never been a man who has ever known 
that the life of any living thing has ever died or has 
been destroyed, for God is the life of the animals and 
all living things upon the earth, just as he is the life 
of man. The Bible does not teach man that the ani- 
mals have souls to live again, after their life is finished 
in this world, nor does it teach man that the life of 
animals ever dies, nor does it teach man that the life of 
animals can ever be scattered to the wind, for it is in 
the hands of God, and God is the life of all living 
creatures, and the life must return again to the life, 



THE LIFE OF ANIMALS AND ALL LIVING THINGS. 23 

for God is the life himself, because God has given to 
the animals a mind, a conscience, and a will, — of the 
animal kind, — that they might understand the life that 
they live ; and while there are many things that man 
does not know about the animal knowledge, the ani- 
mal knows many ways of man. They have brains and 
hearts, like men, and they seem to know when they 
are in danger as well as a man knows when he is 
in danger, and they seem to realize many things 
which man thinks they do not know. A man can tame 
the animals and teach them almost as much as he can 
a man, only they cannot speak to let you know that 
they know you and understand you as much as you 
know and understand them. God has given all ani- 
mals wisdom and knowledge of the animal kind, to 
understand you as you understand them. They know 
when they are abused and ill-treated, and will get 
angry and fight as a man who gets angry ; so it seems 
to me that there must be an evil spirit in the animal's 
heart to make him angry and fight, as the evil spirit 
in the heart of man makes him fight ; so if there is 
no evil spirit in the animal's heart he will not fight, 
and if there is no evil spirit in the heart of man he will 
not fight. 

There is a mystery in the animal that man can- 
not understand ; you see the animals seek to find the 



24 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

green pastures which God made to feed on, while 
man works to get his living ; sometimes the animal 
seems to look at you as if he wished to tell you some- 
thing, but he is dumb and cannot speak. If the animal 
has not wisdom and knowledge, as some men think, it 
would be impossible for man to teach the animal any- 
thing, any more than he could teach a stick of wood, 
because the animal would not have sense of any kind 
to know anything ; but God has made some animals 
very wise in the animal sense, inasmuch as he has 
made some men very wise. The animals at times con- 
vince you that they are very wise indeed, but God has 
not given to the animal the same kind of wisdom and 
knowledge that he has bestowed upon man, because 
God has made man in his own image, and has given 
to him wisdom and knowledge above all living creat- 
ures upon the earth, and man does not realize that 
God has made him as he ought to be, but even the 
animals seem to realize that there is a higher power 
than they are, and, from the wisdom and knowledge 
which God has given to me, I believe that God has 
given to all living things upon the earth wisdom and 
knowledge of its kind, to know that there is a higher 
power above, which made them ; and it seems to me 
that the animals know and bow down to serve their 
God in their own way, in a manner of which we know 
nothing. 



THE DREAM OF MAN WHILE SLEEPING. 



How is it that a man dreams when he lies down to 
sleep, and what causes him to dream when he is sleep- 
ing ? Is his soul sleeping while the body sleeps ? Is 
the whole soul of man sleeping while the body sleeps ? 
Then man cannot dream, because, when the entire 
man sleeping, he is dead to this world and dead to 
the spiritual world. Then the spirit cannot go while 
he is sleeping. But if the whole soul of man is not 
sleeping, he is dreaming. Then the conscience and the 
will sleep in the body to keep it alive, while the mind 
which is the spirit that leaves the body as a spirit and 
goes far away from the body where God carries the 
spirit ; but it does not know whence it leaves the body 
because the mind which is the spirit of the soul goes 
from the body quicker than lightning, by the power of 
God carrying your spirit in many strange places where 
God shows your spirit to many spirits of your deceased 
friends upon the earth ; and sometimes God carries your 
spirit far into the beautiful heavenly world, where he 
shows your spirit the beauties of the heavenly world, 
so that when you awake you can see the beautiful 



26 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

heavenly world through your spirit who has seen it in 
your dream ; then you can tell what you have seen in 
your dream. While you are sleeping and in your 
dream, your spirit is gone from you; but the voice of 
anybody calling you, or from any noise made, your 
spirit comes back to you quicker than lightning united 
with the body ; then you awake knowing what your 
spirit has seen. 

The soul of man is the most wonderful thing that God 
has ever made, for when it leaves the body there is a 
mighty power of God with the soul unknown to man 
in this world. So the dream of a man is a mystery 
to the soul and body which has dreamt, for the spirit 
has gone far away from the body and has seen many 
different things that the body has never seen. Still, 
the spirit cannot tell whence it goeth and whither it 
cometh ; so the dream is a mystery to the soul which 
has dreamt it. Now, if the spirit does not leave the 
body when man is dreaming in his sleep, how can the 
body and the soul wake up and tell about seeing 
things and being in places which the body has never 
seen ? The reason why man can tell of his dreams is 
that while he is sleeping his spirit is drawn away by 
the power of God to see all that God wants it to see, 
so that when man awakes from his dream he can tell 
what he has seen through the spirit which has seen it 



THE DREAM OF MAN WHILE SLEEPING. 2J 

in his dream. Then, if the soul and body is sleeping, 
the entire man is sleeping and knows nothing, as if it 
had never come into existence, until the soul and body 
awake again and finds itself in existence in this world. 

I explain the dreams of man so that man may see 
that his dreams, even, tell him that he is a wonderful 
being ; his spirit leaves him even while he lives in this 
world, and returns and unites with him again. So even 
your dreams tell you that when you die your spirit 
still lives in the next world above. 

Now, when you lie down to sleep and dream all 
good dreams, it is the good spirit that comes to you 
while you are sleeping and draws away your spirit, 
and it goes from you quicker than lightning, by the 
power of God ; and when you dream wicked dreams, 
your spirit is drawn away in the same way by the 
wicked spirit, with the power of the devil. Now, it is 
God who causes you to dream good dreams and it is 
the devil who causes you to dream wicked dreams. 

Now, it seems that just so fast as the mind travels 
while man is living, just so fast does the spirit travel 
when man dies. 



TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS CHRIST. 



Christ took with him Peter and James and John, 
and led them up into a high mountain, apart by 
themselves, where the clouds of glory lowered from the 
heavens, wrapping around the mountain side ; and he 
was transfigured before them, and his raiment be- 
came shining white as snow, and the brightness of his 
glory was so great that it blinded them so that they 
could not behold him in his glory. And there ap- 
peared unto them from the clouds of glory two men 
one each side of Jesus, dressed in their heavenly 
robes, talking with him for a few moments, and then 
the clouds soon received them again and they were 
carried out of sight into heaven. Who are they? 
They are Moses and Elias, who died many years ago ; 
but Jesus has called them down from heaven again to 
be witnesses to his disciples of their future life in the 
spiritual world, so that they would know and never for- 
get the wonderful scene of the life of Moses and Elias. 

Peter was so happy on the mountain that he wanted 
to stay, and asked Jesus if he might make three 
tabernacles, so they might live on that delightful spot ; 



TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS CHRIST. 29 

and as he spoke a voice came out of the clouds, saying, 
" This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 
All this proved Jesus to be the Son of God, the gift 
of God, the Eternal Life, the Life of the world ; Jesus 
in his glory, and the presence of Moses and Elias in 
all their glory from heaven, teach us that when our 
spirits leave our bodies and return to God, we are still 
living in the heavenly world, while our bodies lie in 
the grave. Oh ! what a comfort it is for me to know 
that when we die in Jesus we still live in the heavenly 
world with our friends who have gone there before ; 
and we shall live forever more in the city of God. 



GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, WHERE 
JESUS PRAYED. 



I wish I could tell the world how much Jesus suf- 
fered to save this lost and perishing world. Oh, look 
into the garden of Gethsemane, a place where Jesus 
often went to pray. He is alone in his sorrow, with the 
world of sin upon him ; the Bible tells us that his 
suffering was so great that drops of bloody sweat 
stood on his face and fell down to the ground. How 
great must have been his agony. Why did he suffer so ? 
Because it was his Father's will for him to die to save 
the world. 

Jesus did not suffer because he was sinful ; no, he 
never did wrong ; he came from heaven pure and holy; 
he suffered for our sins ; he loved us so much that he 
could not see us lost forever. He knew, in order that 
we might be saved, he must die for our sins. He knew, 
too, just the agony he must endure if he died for us, 
and it seemed more than he could bear ; for Jesus was 
man as well as God, and suffered just as we suffer. 
We see him in Gethsemane kneeling in prayer. He 
is pleading with his Father in heaven that if it could 
be possible this cup of suffering might pass from 
him ; yet he says, " Not my will, but thine, be done." 
You see Jesus was willing to submit to this death on 



GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, WHERE JESUS PRAYED. 3 1 

the cross, if that was God's way for our salvation. Did 
his Father remove the cup of suffering? No, he could 
not, for the Bible tells us there was no other way 
whereby we could be saved. 

How thankful we ought to be that God so loved 
the world that he gave his only begotten Son to 
die for us, and that Jesus himself so loved us as to 
willingly lay down his life that we might live ; but it 
cost him the terrible agony in the garden of Gethsem- 
ane, where the world's guilt rested upon him more than 
he could bear. 

You see an angel approaching Jesus. What has he 
come for ? He has come to comfort and strengthen 
him in his great trial and sorrow. 

We are told that angels are ministering spirits ; they 
came to comfort Jacob one night when he was sleeping 
in Bethel, and they came to tell the shepherds that 
Jesus was born. God sends his angels to comfort us 
in times of sorrow and trouble. We cannot see them, 
for they are spirits, but they speak to our hearts the 
comforting words of God, and fill our souls with peace 
and joy. But only those who are obedient to the will of 
God can expect such help and comfort in their sorrow 
and trouble. The angels are watching over us day and 
night ; even at night while we are sleeping they are 
still watching over us. 



MOUNT SINAI, WHERE GOD GAVE THE 
COMMANDMENTS TO MOSES. 



On Mount Sinai, where God gave the command- 
ments to Moses for the people, the mountain seems to 
be on fire, the lightnings are flashing wildly, and the 
deafening thunder is heard up and down the mountain 
side. God is on the mountain and wants to impress 
his people with his majesty and power. He called 
Moses up into the mountain with him, but told the 
people not to come near ; if they did they would be 
destroyed. 

We have learned how God with a mighty power 
brought his people out of bondage and gave them 
bread and water in the wilderness, as they journeyed. 
They had not travelled long before they came to this 
mountain where God revealed his glory. It was a 
wonderful sight which his people would never forget. 

Moses went up into the cloud and stayed a long 
time in the mountain with God, even forty days. 
Here God gave him his laws concerning the people, 
just what he wanted them to do; that they should 
worship him and love one another, keep the Sabbath 



MOUNT SINAI AND THE COMMANDMENTS TO MOSES. 33 

holy, and if they sinned what they must do to be 
forgiven. 

While Moses was on the mountain the sight was 
awful, and the people were made to tremble. When 
Moses came down from the mountain he had two 
tables of stone on which God had written his holy 
law. He told Moses many things he wanted his 
people to observe, but the ten commandments were 
written upon stone to show that they were to endure 
forever. 

These tables of stone God commanded to be put 
in a strong chest called the " ark," and this ark was to 
be carried wherever his people should go. When the 
tabernacle was made, which was their place of worship 
while journeying in the wilderness, the ark was put in 
it, in the most holy place ; two angels were made of 
gold, which were placed so as to look toward each 
other, bending over the ark. This ark was the symbol 
of the divine presence of God because it contained his 
holy law, so that the people when they went out to 
war would carry the ark before them, showing by this 
they trusted God to fight their battles. These tables 
of stone, on which the law was written, were kept in 
the ark for many years, until the great temple was 
built at Jerusalem. When the temple was finished 
the people brought the ark and placed it therein, 



34 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

saying by this, " We obey the law " ; and the glory of 
the Lord filled the temple in a wondrous manner. 

God so loved the world that he has done everything to 
save the wicked people from their sins. He prepared 
tables of stone in heaven and has written thereon the 
ten commandments which is his holy law, and left his 
throne in heaven and came down upon Mount Sinai 
and called Moses upon the mountain top in the clouds 
of heaven, where the lightning flashed and his glory 
was so bright that the mountain seemed to be on fire. 
There is where he delivered his holy commandment to 
Moses to teach his people his holy law, that they might 
know his will and know how to live for him upon the 
earth, so that they may become united unto him and 
be saved from his wrath to come by his love for them. 

So great was the power and the glory of God on the 
mountain top that the people came to believe that God 
was the ruler of the heavens and of the earth. But the 
law was so strict that the people could not live up to 
the law, so God sent his son Jesus Christ into the 
world that we might be saved by him. So the coming 
of Jesus Christ was the end of the law, and we are now 
saved by his grace and not by the law. 



HEAVEN AND THE CITY OF GOD IS THE 
CHRISTIAN'S HOME. 



When a Christian's work is finished on the earth, 
he lays his body down to rest. His soul and body still 
being united in Jesus Christ he falls asleep in him 
and goes to dust again until the resurrection of the 
body, when the spirit returns to unite with the body 
again, to wake it out of its sleep ; but before the body 
dies, the soul and the body are clinging together, try- 
ing to depart from each other, and at last the body dies 
in Christ and the soul is quickened and goes from the 
body a spirit and formed in the image of man, in the 
likeness of his own body. Heaven is open for him. 
He sees the stream of light flashing from the heavens. 
The angel is coming to him, to guide and welcome him 
in the beautiful world above, where the spirit is robed 
in the beautiful white robe of God, that outshines the 
glittering sun, which never will decay nor never fade 
away ; where the spirit enters into rest, in that beauti- 
ful golden city of God, the new Jerusalem that John 
saw coming down from God out of the heavens, with 
all its beautiful golden streets and white and pearly 



36 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

gates ; where all things are pure as gold and white as 
snow ; where the spirits of deceased bodies see God upon 
the great white throne, who reigns forever and forever 
upon the throne, with billions of angels around the 
throne praising the Father and the Son, for giving 
them the everlasting rest in glory and crowning them 
with everlasting life ; where congregations never break 
up and Sabbath has no end. Still the redeemed are 
coming up from the earth through trials and great 
tribulation, whose robes are washed in the blood of 
the lamb and made white as snow; where they will 
never get tired nor lonesome in that beautiful city of 
God ; where they meet their friends and know each 
other there, and sing the new song of the Redeemer, 
coming up from the earth into the kingdom of God 
and his glory that never has an end ; where peace and 
joy forever reign round the throne of God ; where the 
light of that beautiful golden city is God himself upon 
the throne, who will wipe away all tears from your 
eyes in glory ; where no more sorrow nor pain, nor sick- 
ness nor death will ever be felt or feared around the 
throne in heaven ; where angels robed in white, sing 
praises unto God in the highest ; where the Christians 
shall all meet, never to part any more. It is this heaven 
where we shall meet our fathers and our mothers ; yes, 
we shall meet our wives and husbands there ; yes, we 



HEAVEN THE CHRISTIAN S HOME. 37 

shall meet brothers and sisters there; and all our 
children, and be angels of God, gathering around the 
throne, praising God, where the living waters of life 
are flowing from the throne ; where the tree of life is 
blooming to bring forth fruits for every one. Then all 
the toils and sorrows of earthly life will be over, and we 
shall be safe within the kingdom of God with the 
angels, praising God in the highest, with peace and joy, 
singing unto God the Father for crowning them with 
everlasting life that has no end in glory, until the end 
of time comes, the day which God has appointed, the 
time for the end of the world to come, when he will 
give a great power of heat to the sun so that the 
heavens will become so hot that the air will be set on 
fire ; then the flames of the fire will sweep over the 
earth as they travel through the air, and everything 
upon the earth will be burnt up as they pass through 
the fire, with a great noise. But the fire will not affect 
the children of God, because they have been washed 
in the blood of the Lamb and will be with Jesus Christ. 
But, according to the promise of God, Jesus Christ will 
prepare a new heaven and a new earth, wherein 
dwelleth the righteous. Then the beautiful golden 
city, where is the throne of God, will be upon the new 
spiritual earth forever. This beautiful city of the 
heavens is fifteen hundred miles large, according to 



38 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

the measure of man, — that is, of the angel, — and every 
mile of the fifteen hundred miles representing one 
thousand miles, making the number of miles of the 
city fifteen hundred thousand miles large. This is the 
number of miles of the city in the spiritual sense, 
the city lieth four square, and the length is as great as 
the breadth. The length and the breadth and the height 
of it are equal. The city has twelve foundations, with 
the names of the twelve apostles written in them, that 
represent the twelve foundations of the city ; and the 
city has twelve beautiful pearly gates, and at the gates 
twelve angels, which represent the twelve gates, and 
the twelve gates with the names written thereon 
represent the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 
There are three gates on the east side of the city. There 
are three gates on the north side of the city. There are 
three gates on the south side of the city. There are 
three gates on the west side of the city, and the wall of 
the city is one hundred and forty-four cubic feet. 
The wall is of jasper and the city is pure gold, like clear 
glass, and the foundation of the wall of the city is gar- 
nished with all manner of precious stones. The first 
foundation of the city is jasper, the second is sapphire, 
the third is chalcedony, and the fourth an emerald 
the fifth is sardonyx, the sixth is sardius, the seventh 
chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth a topaz, the 



HEAVEN THE CHRISTIAN S HOME. 39 

tenth a chrysoprasus, the eleventh a jacinth, and the 
twelfth an amethyst ; and the twelve gates are twelve 
pearls, and every gate is of one pearl ; and the streets 
of the city are pure gold as transparent as glass. The 
city has no need of the sun, neither of the moon to 
shine in it, for the glory of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, 
lights it in all its beauty and glory. 



WISDOM GIVEN TO ME BY THE SPIRIT. 



I read the words of Jesus Christ, telling to his 
apostles the signs and the wonders of his coming and 
the end of the world, and his apostles tell these words 
of Jesus Christ and warn the world of his coming 
and the resurrection of the dead. And as I ask the 
Lord to give me wisdom to understand ; that I may 
know the mystery of his word as I am one of his ser- 
vants that has been born of the holy spirit of God, 
trying to live a good and a true life in Jesus Christ, 
as he is living in me, I give my views of the words of 
Jesus Christ from his apostle according as the spirit 
has given to me understanding of the life of the Chris- 
tian in the heavenly world, and how the spirit of the 
Christian returns to the body again in the first resur- 
rection and unites together again ; and also the life of 
the wicked in hell, in the world of darkness, and how 
the wicked spirit returns to the body of the sinner 
and is united together again in the flesh and blood to 
stand before God, the Great Judge, to be judged 
according to their deeds done in their body. 

Now this is not a mystery to me because God has 



WISDOM GIVEN TO ME BY THE SPIRIT. 41 

given me wisdom to understand the mystery of it, but it 
is a mystery to the world and the world is a mystery to 
me ; but the greatest mystery to me is my own self, be- 
cause I do not know whence I came into existence in this 
world, only by the words of my parents ; but I know that 
I exist in God, from the foundation of the world, and 
I know whence I was born the second time from 
above. But what did God create me for and place me 
in existence in this world ? It was for his cause and 
his glory that he put me in existence in this world. 
Now I know that but a short time ago I did not exist 
in this world, and a short time hence I will cease to 
exist in this world. I shall no longer be here. I know 
not whence I came, I know not when I go, but 
when I go I shall soon find myself existing in the 
world above, with the Lord, for evermore, and 
the world will go on as if I had never been here until 
the end of the world comes and the resurrection of 
my dead body again. 



SODOM AND GOMORRAH DESTROYED. 



Go to Palestine, and go southeast of the Dead Sea on 
the plains, where it seems that the cities of Sodom and 
Gomorrah were situated, the wicked cities, and there 
you will find a mountain of Sodom, southeast of the 
plains, which is almost pure rock salt, extending about 
five miles along the shore and rising perhaps two 
hundred and fifty feet above the sea. There you will 
see many cliffs of pure rock salt standing like pillars 
in every peculiar shape, some of them at least one 
hundred feet high; and one of these cliffs resembles a 
woman in hasty flight, her dishevelled hair and torn 
garments seem to be flying in the wind, and her 
head slightly turned as if looking back over her left 
shoulder on the wicked cities burning, from which she is 
fleeing for her life. It is said to be Lot's wife, fleeing 
for her life. There is nothing very remarkable in the 
Bible concerning anything good of this disobedient 
woman, who disobeyed God, who had sent his two 
angels from heaven to warn Lot that the city would 
be destroyed. So the two angels said unto Lot, " Take 
thy wife and thy two daughters and bring them out 
of this place, for we will destroy this place." And the 
angels hastened Lot, saying, " Arise, take thy wife, and 



SODOM AND GOMORRAH DESTROYED. 43 

thy two daughters, which are here ; lest thou be con- 
sumed in the iniquity of the city." And while Lot lin- 
gered the angels laid hold upon his hand, and upon the 
hand of his wife, and upon the hands of his two 
daughters and brought them out of the city, and said 
to Lot and his family, " Escape for thy life; look not 
behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plains ; escape 
to the mountain, lest thou be consumed." And they 
started on their flight; but his wife looked back and 
she became a pillar of salt. It seemed as if in the very 
act of her disobedience she was struck dead by the 
power of God, turning her into a pillar of salt, where 
she remains unto this day ! — a pillar of salt, for a warn- 
ing to all who believe in Jesus Christ to go forward, 
looking unto God and trusting in Jesus Christ for your 
eternal life, and look not back behind at the wicked 
world again, that will carry you down into the world 
of darkness. 

The Bible tells us that God destroyed Sodom and 
Gomorrah because they were so wicked that he could 
not find ten righteous people in the cities, so destroyed 
the cities. The two angels God sent from heaven to 
tell Lot and his family to flee out of that city, that he 
would destroy it, came to Lot in the form of man, and 
Lot made them a feast, and they did eat. So when our 
spirit leaves this earthly body it is an angel, just the 
same as the two angels that came from God to Lot. 



GOD'S COVENANT WITH JACOB. 



God had made great promises to Abraham, but it 
was to be many years before they were to be fulfilled ; 
so the Lord came to him several times and repeated 
the solemn covenant, that he might not be left in doubt. 
When Abraham was dead, for fear his children would 
be unbelieving, the Lord appeared unto Jacob, his 
grandchild, and told him the same thing he told his 
grandfather, Abraham. 

Now, as Jacob was journeying through the country, 
he stopped to lodge for the night. He took a stone 
for his pillow and lay down to sleep. In his sleep 
he saw a wonderful vision, a ladder reaching up to 
heaven, and angels were passing over it ; and at the 
top of the ladder he heard the voice of God re- 
peating the promise he made long before to his 
grandfather Abraham, that he would bless him and 
his children after him, and go with them in all their 
journeys, and would give unto them the land of blessing. 

When Jacob awoke he said, " Surely the Lord was 
in this place and I knew it not. " And Jacob was filled 
with joy, for it was a great honor to have a visit from 



GODS COVENANT WITH JACOB. 45 

God and his angels. The ladder he saw reaching 
up to heaven taught him that there was a way of com- 
munication between earth and heaven. Jacob needed 
this, for he had just defrauded his brother of his birth- 
right, and might have felt that heaven was closed to 
him. God gave him this vision to show him that there 
was mercy for him, and that heaven was not closed to 
a praying soul. The angels which he saw going up and 
down the ladder were to show him that God was not 
only merciful and would forgive, but that he had sent 
ministering angels to help him in his troubles. 

We have the same privilege, and have the same honor 
of a visit from the Lord and his angels, only we are not 
permitted to see God with our eyes ; but he has told us 
if we open our hearts to him he will come in and dwell 
with us. 

How do we know that he is with us if we cannot 
see him? We feel his presence and love in our 
hearts. We do not see the wind blow, but we feel 
it on our body and are just as certain that it is blowing 
as though we saw it with our eyes. So we know Jesus 
is with us by his power in our hearts, so we go on our 
way rejoicing, as Jacob did when he awoke out of his 
sleep. 



THE FIVE FOOLISH VIRGINS, 



The sleep of the five foolish virgins we read of in 
the Bible, who expected to attend a marriage, but came 
too late and found the door shut. 

You remember that Jesus, when he went back to 
heaven told his sorrowing disciples that he was com- 
ing again ; he has likened his coming to that of the 
bridegroom to the wedding. 

In the east, whenever there was a great marriage the 
bridegroom did not come until late in the night ; then 
a number of virgins who had made themselves ready 
with wedding garments and with lamps in their hands, 
would go out to meet him. 

The Bible tells us of a wedding where five of 
these virgins were wise, and had oil in their lamps, 
but five were foolish, because they had fallen asleep 
while waiting, and their lights had gone out. When 
the cry was heard, " Behold, the bridegroom com- 
eth, go ye out to meet him," the foolish virgins 
awoke from their slumber to find that their lamps 
were not burning ; they were greatly alarmed and went 
to buy oil, but while they were gone the bridegroom 
came, and they that were ready went in with him to 
the marriage and the door was shut. Afterward came 
also the other virgins, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us "; 
but they were too late ; they had been asleep when they 
should have been awake, trimming their lamps and 



THE FIVE FOOLISH VIRGINS. 47 

making ready for the bridegroom. Now they are told 
that they cannot enter in, though they stand knocking 
at the door. How they must have mourned when they 
found that they could not go in to the marriage feast ! 
So Jesus has told us it will be when he comes at the 
end of the world ; some will be ready like the wise vir- 
gins waiting for Jesus, and will enter with him to life 
everlasting, but thousands will not be ready, like the 
five foolish virgins with no oil in their lamps. The 
door of heaven will be closed against them ; they may 
say, We have attended Sabbath school ; we have been 
to church ; we have given our money to the poor and 
done many good things for the poor, — but if they have 
not the love of God within their hearts, they will be 
too late. They may knock and knock at the door to 
enter in, but heaven will be closed against them, and 
Jesus will say, " I never knew you ; depart from me 
into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his 
angels." Oh, how dreadful it will be to be shut out of 
heaven forever. The door is now open, but the cry will 
soon be heard ! Behold, the bridegroom cometh ! " Shall 
we be found among the wise or among the foolish ? 
O friends, be wise, and watch for the bridegroom. Be 
not like the five foolish virgins, for you know not when 
the bridegroom cometh. You will soon hear the call of 
the bridegroom coming ; be ready to meet him when 
he comes. 



A LESSON; OR, A SERMON TO SINNERS 

AND TO ALL TO DO BETTER AND 

TURN TO GOD. 



The name Christian is nothing, and will not do any 
good to any one if they do belong to the church un- 
less they are followers of Jesus Christ, and not followers 
after the lust of the flesh, which bringeth forth death. 
" For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die : but if ye 
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye 
shall live," Now to mortify the deeds of the body 
means, if you want to do something wicked or want to 
go to see something wicked, to enjoy it, and you say it 
is wrong, it is a sin for me to follow after the lust 
of my flesh which is the deed of my body that bringeth 
forth death, I will live after the Spirit, and live with 
the Spirit and do the will of God, then you will 
mortify the deeds of your body and you will live and 
have eternal life, and have the love of God abiding in 
your heart to fulfil the great commandment in the 
law, that Jesus Christ said unto the lawyer when he 
said, " Master, which is the great commandment in the 
law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind. This is the first and great command- 



A LESSON ; OR, A SERMON TO SINNERS. 49 

ment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thyself On these two command- 
ments hang all the law and the prophets." And who- 
soever live by this teaching of God will live forever. 

God is the same to-day that he was in the beginning, 
and the spirit of the Holy Ghost that came down on 
the day of Pentecost to comfort the apostles is the same 
spirit that comforts us to-day, and Jesus Christ and his 
apostles preached warning sermons to warn the sin- 
ners of the wrath of God coming upon them, that they 
might stand in fear of God and repent of their sins. 
So, if we want to convert sinners we must preach the 
warning sermons in these last days as Jesus and his 
apostles preached, and all our forefathers preached, so 
that the sinners will fear God and come to Jesus 
Christ that they' may be saved from their sins. There 
is no need of preaching so much love of God to sin- 
ners when they know nothing about the love of God 
until they give themselves to Jesus Christ and let him 
abide in their hearts. Then they will know what the 
love of God is, when they hear it preached, so that the 
fear of God will bring them to repentance ; for there is 
nothing that will bring sinners to Jesus Christ quicker 
than the fear of God, for the fear of God is the first 
commencement of wisdom, and if a man has no fear of 
God, that he will punish him for his sins, he will not 



50 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

care anything about God and he will do what he 
pleases. 

Yes, there are many self-righteous Pharisees in the 
Church. They think that they can do what they 
please and be saved. Nicodemus was a wise man of 
the Pharisees and a self-righteous man, and a ruler of 
the Jews. He had heard much about Jesus and thought 
that he would go and talk with him ; but he went 
in the night. Why did Nicodemus go in the night? 
Because he was a proud man and did not want any- 
body to see him going to talk with Jesus, for Jesus 
was poor," and many hated him because he told them 
of their sins. And it is just the same to-day with sin- 
ners as it was when Jesus Christ was upon the earth. 
If a Christian tells a sinner of his sins he will hate 
him; but Jesus told Nicodemus that all these forms of 
religion could not save him, that he must be born 
again. By this, Jesus meant to teach not only Nico- 
demus, but to teach everybody that they must be born 
again to enter the kingdom of heaven. Nicodemus 
could not understand how he could be born again, so 
Jesus told him plainly that he must be born of the 
Spirit from above, and Jesus told him that when the 
wind blows we do not see it but we feel it, so when 
the Holy Spirit comes within our hearts and souls we 
do not see the Spirit come but we feel the Spirit, and 



a lesson; or, a sermon to sinners. 51 

we know that we have new hearts, because our hearts 
are rilled with the holy spirit of love from the Father 
in heaven, — a love that we have never felt before. A 
sinner that fears God, Jesus Christ is drawing near 
unto him and he is near to the kingdom of heaven, 
and when he is born of the Holy Spirit he will never 
be lost, because he has felt the love of God in his 
heart that has changed his heart into a new heart ; and 
his whole soul and body being changed, he has 
become a new man in Christ Jesus ; old things have 
passed away and all things have become new to him, 
and the law of God is written within his conscience, 
so that he will not go back in sin as he was before he 
was converted, because the Holy Spirit will have great 
power over him, and if he sins again he will be so 
condemned by the Holy Spirit that he will have such 
a fear of God and his wrath coming upon him for 
violating the law of God after he has been converted 
and felt the love of the Holy Spirit in his heart, he will 
have to fall upon his knees and ask pardon for his sins 
that he has committed ; for God will whip him with 
trouble and sorrows until he comes back to his Father's 
kingdom again. Now, because God has promised to 
save you after you have been converted, many go and 
sin again, and many are saved " with fear, pulling them 
out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by 
the flesh" (the General Epistle of Jude, 23d). 



52 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

Now, to be a righteous man you must be born again 
of the Spirit from above, and believe the Word of God 
and deny yourself of the pleasures of the world, and 
take up your cross and follow Jesus Christ in all his 
teaching, and do the will of your Father who is in 
heaven ; then that man is a righteous man and is 
ready for the kingdom of God. Yes, God wants all 
to be righteous and sin no more, so that they will not 
be saved ; " with fear, pulling them out of the fire ; 
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." So, 
every minister who preaches the gospel ought to preach 
the fear of God to sinners, so that they will come to 
fear God and acknowledge that they are sinners ; then 
they will come to God and ask him to forgive them for 
their sins, and he will forgive them ; then the love of 
God will come within their hearts and cast out all fear. 

Now, the love of God does not belong to any man 
until he receives it from God, and from the fear of 
God cometh love, and how can a sinner love God be- 
fore he receives the love from God ? There are no 
sinners who have ever loved God until he has received 
the love of the Holy Spirit within his heart. Now, is it 
love that makes a man keep the law of the State in 
which he lives ? No ; it is the fear of being punished 
by the law of the State that makes him keep the law ; 
and so will a Christian keep the law of God because 



a lesson; or, a sermon to sinners. 53 

he knows that God will punish him if he does not 
keep his law; but a sinner will not keep the law of 
God until he comes to Christ and receives the love of 
the Holy Spirit within his heart ; then he will keep 
the law of God and fear God, because he knows that 
he has a right to fear God as well as he has a right to 
love God. But a man who fears not God is a self- 
righteous man, because he has no love of God abiding 
within his heart, and he has no part in the kingdom of 
God, because he has no love for God. Now, why does 
a boy fear his father ? Because he knows that his 
father will punish him if he does wrong. Well, if the 
child fears his father because he knows that his father 
will punish him, how much more ought a man fear 
God and do his will, when he knows that God can 
destroy both soul and body, in hell. ( Matthew x. 28.) 
Now, the State has made a law for peace and liberty 
for all men to live by it, and no man will ever be 
punished unless he violates the law that he has been 
forbidden to violate ; and if he violates the law, he 
punishes himself because he had no right to violate 
the law of the State which gives peace and liberty to 
every man. Now, God has made a law against sin, 
which is an evil and corruption that brings forth death ; 
this law is for man to live by, and God has given to 
every man all the peace and joy in his glorious king- 



54 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

dom which he has himself, and if any man is not satis- 
fied with the glorious liberty, peace, and joy which 
God has prepared for him, he must die the death of 
the wicked. But some men will seek to know God, 
and the man that has been born of the Holy Spirit 
will never be lost because " whosoever is born of God 
doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth in him : 
and he cannot sin, because he is born of God " ( the 
First Epistle General of John, iii. 9 ). 

Now, there is only one sin that will never be for- 
given after you have been born of the Holy Spirit, 
and that sin is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. 
It shall not be forgiven unto men. " And whosoever 
speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be for- 
given him : but whosoever speaketh against the Holy 
Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this 
world, neither in the world to come." ( Matthew xii. 
31, 32.) Now this is the wilful sin; "for if we sin 
wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of 
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." 
(Hebrews x. 26.) This is the unpardonable sin, — 
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, which is the spirit 
of love from God, that fills your heart with the love 
of God. If any one wilfully curses and blasphemes 
this spirit he will commit the unpardonable sin which 
never will be forgiven. 



SPIRITS COMING AND GOING. 



From the time that Jesus Christ came into this 
world there have been over fifty billions of people 
created and born in this world by God, and have died, 
and their spirits have returned to the spirit world to 
God again, who created them. Are all of these spirits 
at rest ? Not according to the Bible are all of them at 
rest. Are the Christians at rest ? Yes. Where? In 
heaven. Where is heaven ? Above in the spirit world, 
where the throne of God is. Are they at liberty ? 
Yes, to go from world to world, and it is heaven with 
them everywhere they go, because they are in the 
likeness and the glory of God. When I say Chris- 
tain I mean all who have been born of the Holy Spirit, 
and have lived in accordance with the word of God. 
Shall any of the sinners be saved ? No ; they all die 
without being born of the Spirit of God, and they all 
will be judged every one according to their works, and 
be punished according to their deeds, done in the 
body. Where are the sinners gone ? In the world of 
darkness, wondering until the resurrection day comes, 
because no one will go to their final home to stay 



56 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

until the resurrection of their dead bodies. Where will 
they go then ? The abominable and murderers and 
whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars 
will have their part in the lake which burneth with 
fire and brimstone. 

There is the second death which will come to all 
sinners who have not committed such wicked deeds. 
They will all be punished according to the deeds done 
in their bodies. (St. John xxi. 8.) Do any of these 
spirits ever return to this world again ? Yes, there are 
millions of them in the air, coming and going to look 
upon the bodies that lie in the dust. How do you 
know that these spirits come back to this world again ? 
Because I have seen them, and if I had never seen a 
spirit, the Holy Spirit has given me the word of wis- 
dom to understand the mystery of the soul, that it is 
a spirit after it leaves the body ; and I have seen my 
spirit when I was in a vision, and died. My spirit 
came out of my body and formed in the image of a 
man. Are any of these spirits that are coming to this 
world again and ascending back into the spirit world 
again, visible to any person ? No, they are only visible 
at times to persons who have the gift to see them. 
Do people ever speak to them ? No, not unless they 
have a message for you. If they speak to you, what is 
their voice like ? Very soft and fine. What shape or 



SPIRITS COMING AND GOING. 57 

form are these spirits when they appear before you in 
the form of a person ? Now, while the soul is united 
with the body the mind is a spirit of the soul, and as 
fast as the mind goes from the body into any part of 
the world, in a moment, as a flash of lightning, just so 
fast your spirit travels when you die, and returns to 
God again; and many spirits return to this world again 
and are around their friends day and night, they know 
it not. Now St. Paul says, in Corinthians xii. 10, the 
spirit gives to some persons the gift of discerning of 
spirits. That means that the one who is gifted can see 
spirits. . Now, if there were no spirits upon the earth 
Jesus would not have said to his apostles, in Luke xxiv. 
39, " It is I myself: handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath 
not flesh and bones, as ye see me have " ; and in Mark 
vi. 49, when the apostles saw Jesus walking upon the 
sea, they supposed it was a spirit and cried out ; and 
he said unto them, " Be of good cheer : it is I ; be not 
afraid." Now, what Jesus Christ has said about spirits 
and what his apostles have said about spirits prove 
that there are spirits upon the earth. If there were 
no spirits upon the earth, Jesus would have said to his 
apostles, " There are no spirits "; Therefore, I write this 
to prove to any one who does not believe that the 
spirits of deceased bodies ever come back to visit this 
world again ; they do come back, but there is no one 



58 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

that God has given the power to call spirits from the 
world above to converse with them. When a spirit 
speaks to any one it is a message from God, and God 
has not given power to spirits to take possession of 
any one and speak through them, and they know 
nothing about it. It is nothing but the works of the 
devil, — a complete humbug. 



SERMON ON THE WORD OF GOD. 



Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learn- 
ing, that we through patience and comfort of the Word of God, might 
have hope. — Rom. xv. 4. 

The Apostle Paul tells us of things that are written 
in the Bible. He says God gave us the holy Bible to 
teach and comfort all who will believe in Christ, so 
that we would be filled with the hope of glory. Let us 
look a little at the Word of God and see what it says. 
It tells us that he is holy, just, good, true, kind, wise, 
strong, and glorious. His will is made known to us by 
his gospel and the Holy Spirit. What he forbids we 
must not do. What he wants us to do we must do, be- 
cause he is a spirit and we must worship him in spirit 
and in truth. His first and great demand of us is the 
heart ; without the heart we cannot please him. The 
same Word of God tells us how we sinners can be 
saved. It points out one way of life, and that way holds 
forth Jesus Christ as the only door and the only sacri- 
fice for sin, — the Son of God that taketh away the sins 
of the world ; the way, the truth, and the life. It ex- 
pressly says that no man can enter into heaven but 



60 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

by Jesus Christ. On these points it leaves no doubt. 
There is hope for sinners in no other way. He who 
climbs up to heaven in any other way but by Jesus 
Christ is a thief and a robber ( John x. i ). " Who is a 
liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ ? " ( I John 
ii. 22.) All the prophets and all the apostles point to 
Christ. Do you want to be saved ? look to Jesus. It 
is only by faith in him that you can enter into rest. 
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the 
way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed 
are all they that put their trust in him." ( Ps. ii. 12. ) 
The Bible tells us how we may be made pure and 
holy and be sanctified through his truth. Thy word is 
truth." (John xvii. 1 7.) It speaks of being born of the 
spirit and renewed by the Holy Ghost. He is the one 
that consecrates the soul to God. He is the well of 
water springing up into everlasting life within us. Love, 
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 
meekness, temperance, are all the fruit of the spirit. 
(Gal. v. 22, 23.) Without him we are lost and have no 
desires for good thoughts. He takes of the things of 
Christ and shows them unto us. He is the author of all 
saving, and of the edifying gifts. It was the spirit of 
God that anointed Jesus Christ to preach the tidings, 
" to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to 
the captives, and the opening of the prison to them 



SERMON ON THE WORD OF GOD. 6 1 

that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of 
God " to appoint unto them that mourn, to give them 
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and 
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. (Isa. 
lxi. i -3 ; Luke iv. 16,21.) Nor let any man forget that 
the blessed Holy Spirit will be found by prayer. Christ 
himself says, " If ye then, being evil, know how to give 
good gifts unto your children, how much more shall 
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them 
that ask him ? (Luke xi. 13.) 

Then there are some things very remarkably 
borne out by the Word of God ; they bear one testi- 
mony ; they bring out the same great and glorious 
truths ; they teach all men that they are by nature 
lost, dead in trespasses and sins; that salvation is 
of God, a free gift by Jesus Christ; without holi- 
ness no man shall see God and without faith and 
love it is impossible to please God. They say that 
no sinner ever turned to God with hearty sorrow for 
sin and was rejected ; they give no case of that kind ; 
they teach the very opposite. Christ himself says, "Him 
that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" 
(John vi. 2)7) They set before us the blessed truth, 
and no one has ever trusted in God and was left alone. 
Jesus Christ, the good shepherd, never gives one of 
his sheep or lambs to the wolves. The Bible makes it 



62 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

plain that no true servant of God was ever forsaken, 
nor has any promise of God to believers ever been 
broken or set aside to this day ; each one is in force. 
It is greatly to the comfort of all who know and feel 
that God truly loves weak Christians as strong ones, 
and that the weak brother " shall be holden up : for God 
is able to make him stand." (Rom. xiv. 4.) If mercy 
was only for the rich, the poor could not be saved ; but 
the Bible tells us that there is no difference between 
the rich and the poor, for the Word of God gives 
every encouragement to the simple, the feeble, and to 
all to trust in God through Jesus Christ. What more 
do we want ? There may be war, famine, and pesti- 
lence ; the earth may reel and stagger like a drunken 
man ; the blue heavens may wither, and the green 
mountains become hoary, and all nature may change 
or stand aghast, but God has given his word and his 
oath to all that have fled to Jesus, that his grace shall 
save them and he will never leave them nor forsake 
them. Nor can greater trials come upon God's people ; 
the world and the devil have things their own way. 
more than they have already had them, nor can the 
Church of God become so low as she has been, when 
in all the earth there were but eight members, and 
they tossed on the billows of the deluge, or when her 
great Head lay cold and dead in the sepulchre of 



SERMON ON THE WORD OF GOD. 63 

Joseph. And when the Word of God bids us look into 
the future and tells us wondrous things, it says to all 
the saints that the day of their mourning shall soon be 
ended. It says that, having loved his own, Jesus will 
love them to the end. It says " that neither death, nor 
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things 
present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, 
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us 
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our 
Lord." (Rom. viii. 38, 39.) 

The word of God also opens to us, so far as we need, 
so that we may see visions of the future glory. The 
Bible speaks of words which are not lawful for a man 
to utter ; it says there awaits all the saints an exceed- 
ing and eternal weight of glory; it assures all the 
saints that they are ever with the Lord. Surely, then, 
the people of God will have hope. They can ask 
nothing more to assure their faith; need what they 
may, it is provided by the Lord and promised in his 
Word. There is no danger of their trusting God too 
much ; the fear is that they will not believe all that 
his Word allows them to believe ; nor do they need 
brighter examples of piety and courage than the Bible 
gives them, for, through faith, God's people have 
" subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained 
promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the 



64 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of 
weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, 
turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women 
received their dead raised to life again : and others 
were tortured, not accepting deliverance ; that they 
might obtain a better resurrection : and others had 
trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover 
of bonds and imprisonment : they were stoned, they 
were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with 
the sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and 
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of 
whom the world was not worthy : they wandered in 
deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of 
the earth." (Heb. xi. 33, 38.) 

Let us, then, hold fast our confidence which hath 
great recompense of reward. Let us hope to the end 
for the grace that is to be brought unto us at the 
appearing of Jesus Christ. But if God's Word is to 
give us hope and comfort, we must know it, and if we 
know it we should hear it, read it, hide it in our hearts, 
not forget it nor slight it, but think of it, talk of it, study 
it, lay fast hold of all its truths, seek to find out the 
meaning of all God hath said, seek the guidance of the 
Holy Spirit : he can make the darkest things plain ; he 
pours floods of light on the sacred Word and teaches 
us the mind of God as no man or angel can do. And 



SERMON ON THE WORD OF GOD. 65 

in all our ways we must have patience, or constancy, 
as the word means ; we must not flinch from duty or 
from labor, or from study, or from peril, or from suffer- 
ing. " The righteous also shall hold on his way, and 
he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 
(Job xvii., 9.) Let all our trials increase our patience. 
It is sad to see a child of God trembling like a leaf. 
Be not a reed shaken with the wind ; he that wavereth 
is like a wave of the sea. God's Word will cure a 
thousand fancies and fears that you may now have, 
so hold fast to the Word of God and let all else go. 



SERMON, SINNERS WILL BE PUNISHED. 



The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget 
God. — Psalms ix. 17. 

Sinners will be punished ; they commit sin day and 
night and care nothing about it, and think that they 
are done with it forever. Few succeed in convincing 
themselves of this huge error, but some do think that 
the Most High doth not know it and will never call 
them to account. Others think that the day of God's 
dealing with them will not come till, by some means 
not sanctioned by God's Word, not approved by sound 
reason, they will make all right in many ways. Sin- 
ners practice deceit on themselves and harden their 
hearts in iniquity ; they are not done with sin when 
they have committed it, for their sins are still upon 
their souls and will be sure to find them out. God 
has said that sin shall be punished by the way he 
causes woe to come unto sinners. 

Here the drunkard, the glutton and the cheat, the 
liar and the lewd are not the only examples ; the 
frauds are exposed ; nearly all murderers are brought 
to light ; men may be secretly plotting and think 
their crimes are hid, but the providence of God calls 



SERMON, SINNERS WILL BE PUNISHED. 6? 

on stones and the arms of timber on tracks, and 
pieces of paper to be witnesses of the crimes. Some, 
indeed, escape conviction, and a few escape detection ; 
moral evidence often puts the brand on men who 
escaped punishment by legal evidence. 

Then, all that class of sin which is not pun- 
ished by human laws God often punishes — even in 
this world, before they die and go into the world of 
darkness below — by his wrath upon them, so that they 
have no peace within them. After twenty-four years of 
concealment, Joseph's brothers are brought to feel and 
say that God has found out their iniquities. 

Ibycus, a Grecian poet, was going to Corinth ; rob- 
bers attacked and murdered him. When he was dying 
he looked around to see if there were any witness or 
avengers. All he could see was a flock of cranes high in 
the air. He called on them to avenge his blood. You 
may think that was an idle call ; the robbers thought so, 
but when they came to Corinth they went to the open 
theatre ; as they sat there they looked up and saw above 
them a flight of cranes, and one scoffingly said, " There 
are the avengers of Ibycus." The words were heard 
by some one near ; already fears of the poet's safety 
began to be common. The gang on being questioned 
betrayed themselves, and the cranes of Ibycus became 
a proverb like that in English. 



68 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

Many men who have too much passion to abstain 
from crime have too much conscience to conceal it ; men 
may be sure thac their sins will be punished by the 
sore judgment with which God judges men for their 
wicked deeds. Now we should exercise caution and 
charity, and not call that an angry judgment which is 
right and just. There are on earth sore and marked 
judgments. Look at the history of Achan, of Korah, 
of Nadab and Abihu, of Saul, of Absalom, and many 
others mentioned in the Old Testament. Read the 
history of the crimes and cruelties and pride of Herod, 
Agrippa, and see the unhappy end of their lives, and 
you can hardly avoid the conviction that verily there 
is a God who judgeth in the earth. Of thirty Roman 
emperors, proconsuls, and high officials who distin- 
guished themselves by persecuting the early Chris- 
tians, it is recorded that one became speedily de- 
ranged ; after an act of great cruelty one was slain 
by his own son ; one became blind ; the eyes of one 
started out of his head ; one was drowned ; one was 
strangled ; one died in a miserable captivity ; one fell 
dead in a manner that was a disgrace to be told ; one 
died of a loathsome disease by which several of his 
physicians were put to death, because they could 
not abide the stench that filled his room ; two com- 
mitted suicide ; a third attempted it, but had to call for 



SERMON, SINNERS WILL BE PUNISHED. 69 

help to finish the bloody deed ; five were assassinated 
by their own servants ; five others died a horrible death 
having many strange diseases, and eight were killed in 
battle, or after being taken prisoners. Wicked and 
cruel men shall not live out half of their days. In more 
modern times you would find many cases like these 
already given, in the death of tyrants, infidels, crimi- 
nals, and vicious men. A man was swearing falsely, 
he was seen to grow pale, stagger, and expire ; a pro- 
fane man called on God to damn his eyes, — soon after 
his eyes burst and left their sockets empty. There is a 
judge upon the earth, and the sins of the wicked and 
cruel men finish them when they enter the judgment 
of God. 

Now let the sinner come to be righteous and be 
saved, wicked men stand in fear and sin not. One may 
escape detection and strange judgment, and still his 
sins will find him out in the fears, clamors, and remorse 
of conscience. Often a man after he has committed 
murder will turn coward or desperado, if he lives ; he 
is afraid at night, he is afraid of being alone; the 
crime that rests upon his conscience keeps the spirit 
of the guilty in the state of a volcanic mountain : the 
fire rages within, the heated elements boil and swell 
and mutter angry sounds, and no man can put it out ; 
the Word of God, preaching, singing, praying, a trial in 



yO THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

court, the sight of the man he has injured, — anything 
may arouse his conscience into fury at most inconven- 
ient times. But even if one escapes all these things, 
yet if he dies unpardoned his sins will punish him in the 
next world ; for there is nothing covered, that shall not 
be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known." (Luke 
xii. 2.) These were the words of Christ rebuking the 
hypocrits of his time. Some men's sins are open before- 
hand, going before to judgment, and some men they 
follow after. (Tim. v. 24.) But whether they go before 
or after, your sins will find you out in spite of your 
efforts to conceal them. God knows all about your 
wicked deeds and has written them against you. Solo- 
mon said, " Curse not the king, no not in thy thought ; 
and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber ; for a bird 
of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath 
wings shall tell the news." (Ecc. x. 20.) But Jesus 
Christ needs no bird and no messenger to tell him 
what man thinks or says or does. 

Why do not men admit the force of these truths and 
act accordingly? The reasons are very clear; some think 
their sins will not find them out and they will not be 
punished here because God has not yet called them to 
an account, because sentence against the evil work has 
not come to punish the sinner yet, therefore the heart of 
men is set to do evil. (Ecc. viii. 11.) Such men cannot 



SERMON, SINNERS WILL BE PUNISHED. 7 1 

understand that with the Lord one day is as a thousand 
years, and a thousand years as one day ; that the day 
of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, and the 
only reason why they are not punished now is because 
God is long-suffering, not willing that any should per- 
ish, but all should come to repentence. (2 Pet. iii. 8, 
10.) Sinners in this world often forget their sins and 
think God has forgotten them too, but God forgets 
nothing. That which occurred five thousand years 
ago he knows as well as if it was done to-day. It 
is not the righteous but the wicked that has " said in 
his heart, God hath forgotten : he hideth his face ; he 
will never see it." (Psalms x. 11.) 

Some think their sins will not find them out and they 
will not be punished ; but they will be sure to find 
them out in the next world, and they will be punished ; 
the Bible tells us of such. " They break in pieces thy 
people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. They slay 
the widow and the stranger, and murder the fath- 
erless," yet they say the God of Jacob regards it. (Ps. 
xciv. 5-7.) But that is practically atheism, for " the eyes 
of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and 
the good." (Prov. xv. 3.) " And God shall bring every 
work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether 
it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecc. xii. 14, 4.) The 
wicked think their sin will not find them out and they 



72 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

will not be punished because God is merciful. Yes, 
God is merciful, but he will punish all who will not do 
his will. God has prepared a way, and his mercy is as 
high as heaven, deep as the ocean, longer than the 
earth, and broader than the sea ; but mercy slighted 
and rejected can save no man. All the cooling foun- 
tains can do no good to them who will not drink them ; 
the light of the sun is not strong enough to make the 
blind see ; bread will not save from starvation unless it 
be eaten, — even God's mercy will not save men from 
hell unless it be accepted. O sinner, your sins will 
find you out. You may now live in ease and in error ; 
you may now harden your heart in pride, but you 
must meet your sins at God's tribunal. Remember that, 
and be wise unto salvation. You have been sick in 
your past life, perhaps, and thought that you would die, 
you then made a vow to God that if he would spare 
you and raise you up again in health and strength 
you would lead a different life ; you were in distress, 
suffering with pains, and knew not whether it was 
night or day ; the dark clouds gathered thick around 
you ; all looked dark to you ; death seemed to be star- 
ing you in the face ; the dark deeds of your sins came 
before you and flashed in your mind, and your heart 
was filled with the sorrows of your sins and you began 
to think that you were going to die and you knew that 



SERMON, SINNERS WILL BE PUNISHED. 73 

you would not meet your God in peace, so you com- 
menced to pray, " O Lord, if thou wilt hear my prayer 
and help me, and restore me to my health again, I will 
change my course and live a better life." He heard your 
prayer ; he helped you ; he restored you to your health 
again, and how have you kept your vows ? Sometimes 
an awful sense of guilt has come over you : it was 
your sins rising up before you like a dark, thick cloud 
that shades over you at night ; the great number of 
evils encompassed you ; your iniquities took hold upon 
you so that you were not able to look up ; your sins 
were more than you could tell, therefore your heart 
failed you and you saw and you said that your past 
life had been wicked. You asked the Lord not to cut 
you off in your sins, because you knew that you would 
not be justified in his sight and you would be cast into 
hell, into the world of darkness ; so you said you would 
try to do better ; but when your peace of mind was but 
little restored you forgot God and all that you had said. 
Are you now doing the will of God, or have you lied to 
God ? to have the death angel of the devil following 
after you day and night instead of the holy angel of 
God to follow you ? 

Choose Christ, that you may rest in peace with God 
and his holy angels. All that do the will of God will be 
his holy angels. When we enter into heaven we shall 



74 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

be as a flame of fire, with much power and strength, 
as the holy angels of God have. ( Heb. i. 7. ) Their 
power is great, they excel in strength. (Psalms ciii. 20. ) 
In one night one of them slew all the first-born of 
Egypt ; in one night one of them slew one hundred 
and eighty-five thousand men in the army of Sen- 
nacherib. 

Angels are mighty and glorious, with great power. 
John saw one who came down from heaven to this 
world, and his glory lighted the earth. They are 
pure and holy, mighty and glorious spirits of God, 
watching over the righteous people of God, guarding 
them day and night. There is an angel with every 
Christian, to watch and protect him, and comfort and 
strengthen him in all his troubles and sorrows, ready 
to carry him to his heavenly home when God calls for 
him. 

O sinner, if you don't turn unto God and seek his 
rest, you will be turned into hell, and so will all who 
forget God. 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE 
FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 



And "the Lord will descend from heaven with 
a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the 
trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall arise first." 
And the spirit of each body will descend from heaven 
with God with all his host of angels, and by the power 
of God he will command the graves to burst, and the 
dust of each body will turn into flesh and blood again, 
and the spirit will enter into the body and will be 
united again. The soul and the body being united 
again in flesh and blood, the body wakes up and rises 
from the grave and changes into a spiritual body. And 
all the saints will arise and change from their bodies 
of flesh into spiritual bodies, while those that will 
remain alive will be changed and be caught up to- 
gether to meet the Lord in the air, and forever be 
with him. 

So the body of a Christian never dies but once. 
When the soul and body unite together again in the 
resurrection in flesh and blood, the body will be 
changed into a spiritual body, like the beautiful 
body of Christ when he was transfigured in the clouds 
of glory upon the top of the mountain before Peter, 



y6 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

James, and John. The Christian will represent the 
stars in heaven, for, as one star differeth from another 
star in glory, so will Christians differ from one 
another in the resurrection of the dead as they rise 
from the grave ; for whosoever believeth in Jesus Christ 
with all his heart and soul, and gives himself in the 
work of Jesus Christ in the salvation of saving souls, 
will rise in glory, shining with everlasting crown of 
life, as the morning star which guides the morning 
light of day ; and all who will work for the advance- 
ment of God's kingdom will rise in accordance with 
the bright stars in heaven; but all that just believe in 
Jesus Christ and do nothing for the advancement of 
God's kingdom, will rise as the dim stars in heaven. 

Many years ago I lay down one afternoon and fell 
asleep, and did not wake up until the next morning, 
It appeared to me that I was only asleep one minute, 
from the time that I fell asleep until I woke up again ; 
and so will it appear to the dead bodies which sleep 
in the dust of the earth, to the return of the spirit 
to unite with the body again ; if the bodies have been 
sleeping five thousand years, in the resurrection when 
they wake up again and arise from the grave, it 
will not appear more than one night's sleep to them, 
because the dead know nothing and cannot measure 
the time of sleep to the return of the spirit to its dead 
body. 



ADAM MADE A QUICKENING SPIRIT. 



The First Epistle of Paul the apostle to the Corin- 
thians, Chap. xv. 36 : " Thou fool, that which thou 
sowest is not quickened, except it die." This means 
that the present body which exists now must die before 
it can be quickened : and quickened means a new body 
comes forth from the old body which died. So God 
made Adam a quickening spirit in his death ; then 
Adam's soul was made a spirit. 1 Corinthians, Chap, 
xv. 45 : " The first man Adam was made a living 
soul ; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." 
Now this does not mean that there were two Adams, 
it means that Adam was made a living soul, that is, he 
was a natural man ; and the words " last Adam " mean 
the last of Adam ; he died and was made a quickening 
spirit. This means that his soul went from his body 
a spirit at his death. If God had not made Adam a 
quickening spirit when he died, Adam or no other 
man would ever live again when he died. So you see 
Adam was first a natural man, and afterward he was 
made spiritual. This means that the first Adam and 
the last Adam are the one Adam which God made. 



78 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

The Apostle Paul tells us in the same chapter (verse 
47) : " The first man is of the earth, earthy : the second 
man is the Lord from heaven " ; so you see that the 
Lord was divine and holy, from heaven, and could not 
be made a quickening spirit. 

Now, God has made hell for the devil and his angels ; 
but as the wicked turn away from God and die in their 
sins, they belong to the devil and they are the angels 
of the devil. So, when the wicked die, they are cast 
into hell, in the world of darkness, by the death angel 
of the devil, to remain there until one thousand years 
after the resurrection of the saints. God will bring 
them forth, after the thousand years are finished from 
the resurrection of the saints. He will send forth the 
archangel to sound the trumpet, and by his mighty 
power he will command the graves to burst, and the 
dust of each body will turn back into flesh and blood 
again. Then the wicked spirit will enter into the body 
again and be united again, and the soul being united 
again with the body in flesh and blood, the body wakes 
up and rises from the grave to appear before the great 
white throne, to be judged, every man according to his 
works. 

And whosoever is not found written in the Book of 
Life will be cast into the lake of fire, soul and body 
together ; this is the second death to the body of the 



ADAM MADE A QUICKENING SPIRIT. 79 

wicked but it does not mean that it is the second death 
to the soul, because the soul has never died since God 
put it into existence and never can die ; for there is no 
end to the soul, it will live forever with God in glory, 
or it will live forever in the lake with the devil and his 
angels. The soul and the body have departed once, 
and the soul was cast into the world of darkness and 
the body returned back to dust again ; but when the 
soul and body unite together in flesh and blood in the 
resurrection, the body will die again and that will be 
the second death of the body of the wicked. The 
body will be burnt up but the spirit will live forever in 
the lake of fire, with the devil and the false prophet. 
This is what it means by the second death ; the body 
will be destroyed in the lake of fire, but the spirit can 
never be destroyed. So the second death means that 
the body dies the second time in this last resurrection, 
when the heavens will pass away with a great noise 
and the elements will melt with fervent heat and the 
earth will be swept by fire, and all therein will be 
burned up, and that will be the day of judgment to 
the ungodly men and women, for they will be rising 
from their graves, marching up before the great white 
throne, and receiving their reward, and then are cast 
into the lake of fire ; while the righteous are marching 
on the right into everlasting life, forever with God. 



80 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

Now, the trumpet which will be blown in the resurrec- 
tion, to call the souls and the bodies together again, 
will be the call of God sounding through the archangel 
as a trumpet to the dead bodies as the souls enter into 
the bodies again, to be united together, to wake them 
out of their sleep. 



THE DAILY SACRIFICE TAKEN AWAY. 



Now, " from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be 
taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate 
set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety 
days." But blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh 
to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty 
days But go thou thy way till the end comes, for thou 
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the 
days." Now, before Jesus Christ came into this world 
he stood upon the waters of the river long ago and 
spoke these words to Daniel, the prophet, what should 
come to pass ; and he said, " Lord, how long shall it 
be to the end of these wonders ? " and the man 
clothed in linen, which was Jesus Christ upon the 
waters of the river, held up his right hand and his left 
hand unto heaven, and swore by Him that liveth for- 
ever, that " it shall be for a time, times and a half ; and 
when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power 
of the holy people," then " all these things shall be 
finished." Now, scattering the power of the holy 
people, and time, time and a half, means the end of the 
world ; and, also, scattering the power of the holy 



82 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

people means that the gospel must be preached in all 
the world before the end of the world comes for a 
witness unto him, in Luke iv. 25. As heaven was 
shut up three years and six months, when great famine 
was throughout all the land, so will the daily sacrifice 
be taken away three years and six months, which is 
one thousand two hundred and ninety days before the 
coming of Jesus Christ again upon the earth. But it 
seems at the end of one thousand two hundred and 
ninety days that the daily sacrifice will be restored 
again ; because, if there are no sinners to be saved in 
the one thousand years while Christ reigns upon the 
earth, with all his saints, who will gather around him 
singing praises unto him forever, why will the devil, 
after he is loosed out of the pit, try to deceive the 
nations of the earth again, to induce them to follow 
him. It shows that all who will be living at the time 
when Christ comes again, and will believe in him, will 
be saved until the one thousand years are finished 
from the resurrection of the saints to the resurrection 
of the wicked. 

And in that time I believe God will pour out his 
spirit upon the earth, and the earth will be covered with 
the knowledge of God as the water which covers the 
channel of the great deep. Then I believe that will 
be the time when all will be saved who call on the 



THE DAILY SACRIFICE TAKEN AWAY. 83 

name of the Lord, in the thousand years before the 
resurrection of the wicked ( the end of the world ) ; be- 
cause Christ forgave all who believed in him when he 
was here upon the earth, and I believe that he will 
forgive all who will believe in him when he comes 
again, though the wicked will fall as dead men and 
dead women at his coming, but they will revive and 
arise again and ask the Lord to save them from their 
sins, and he will save them. 



AT THE END OF TIME THE WORLD 
WILL BE DESTROYED. 



God is my helper, and I thank him for the wisdom 
and knowledge which he has given to me, for it 
teaches me and shows to me the signs of the times, 
that the world is drawing near to the end. I find 
what the Bible has taught me has almost been ful- 
filled, and the present times and the past all point to 
the end of the world, for the world is growing more 
wicked as the old world grew, according to the Bible, 
before the flood, and God destroyed it because the 
people were so wicked. And Sodom and Gomorrah 
grew so wicked that God could not find ten righteous 
people in Sodom, and he destroyed the city, which is 
set forth for an example for this world ; and the time 
is not far distant when this world will be as wicked as 
Sodom and Gomorrah, when there will not be many 
righteous people upon the earth and God will destroy 
this world as he did Sodom and Gomorrah. 

Now, wars, and rumors of wars and commotions, 
and nation against nation, and kingdom against king- 
dom, and earthquakes in many places, and famines 



THE WORLD WILL BE DESTROYED. 85 

and pestilence, and fearful sights have been seen, and 
there has been great distress in the world; the wrath 
of God coming upon the people, and they have fallen 
by the edge of the sword and have been led away cap- 
tive into all nations, and Jerusalem has been trodden 
down of the Gentiles, and there have been signs in 
the sun, moon, and stars, and there have been distress 
of nations and men's hearts failing for fear, and they 
are still looking for many signs to appear in the 
heavens, and many false prophets have risen. All of 
these signs have come to pass, and the gospel has 
been preached in almost all parts of the world, for a 
witness unto all nations, and it seems as if the abomi- 
nation of desolation spoken of by Daniel has almost 
passed ; and it seems the world must experience the 
great tribulation, for there are in the world now the 
most wicked and the greatest corruption that ever has 
been in the world ; and all nations are jealous of each 
other, with neither love nor friendship between them, 
and they all are preparing for war, and there is no 
peace upon the earth ; so it seems that the world is get- 
ting into her last troubles, for the times and the signs 
indicate that the world is almost in the great tribula- 
tion before the coming of Jesus Christ again, in clouds 
of heaven ; for the spirit speaketh expressly that in the 
last days that some will depart from the faith, giving 



86 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speak- 
ing lies in hypocrisy, and we may preach down to the 
end of time, as Noah did before the flood, but I believe 
that it will do but a very little good, for there are 
scoffers, men hating and denying Christ, and persecu- 
ting the Christians, and all manner of corruption is now 
upon the earth, and the world has become so wicked 
that it seems as if the end is near, for the devil 
seems to have the greatest power in the world, to-day ; 
for his spirit is so big in the hearts of the wicked 
people that it makes them so corrupt and wicked that 
they speak evil of the church of God and hate the 
preaching of the gospel, and will not listen to it, but 
going on in their wicked deeds ; they will not believe 
in God, which convinces me that the time is coming 
fast which will be the darkest days that the Christian 
people have ever seen, for I believe that the wicked 
people will try to triumph over the Christian people, 
to destroy them as they have done in the ages past. 
But it will be the time that the wicked will cease 
to be ; they will fail and fall by the wrath of God, 
coming upon them, for Christ will be coming with his 
wrath to destroy the wicked, with all his holy angels ; 
and the heavens and the earth will be filled with the 
glory of his saints, for he has promised to protect his 
people who are faithful to him, ready to meet him 



THE WORLD WILL BE DESTROYED. 87 

when he comes ; for, as the lightning cometh out of 
the east and shineth in the west so will be the coming 
of the Lord, and this means that he will come from 
the east unto the far west, that every eye will see 
him coming, for where the carcass is there will the 
eagles be gathered together, and this means where 
Christ will be, there also will be saints gathered 
together unto him. And immediately after the abomi- 
nation of desolation spoken of by Daniel, and the great 
tribulation, it will be the last days of the world, for 
the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her 
light, the stars will fall from the heavens and the 
powers of heaven will be shaken. Then will appear 
the signs of the coming of Christ again, and all the 
tribes of the earth will mourn; then they will see 
Christ coming in the clouds of heaven with power and 
glory, and he will send his angel with a great sound of 
the trumpet and they will gather together all his saints 
from the four winds of the earth unto him, where they 
will be changed into his likeness, forever with him in 
glory. 

I have thought in my past life that if I died before 
I was converted I would live in another world in flesh 
and blood again; I thought that when I died and my 
spirit returned to God again that he would breathe 
my spirit into another body, the body of an infant, in 



88 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

another world, and I would be born of a woman again 
and grow up in flesh and blood once more, in all the 
bloom and beauty of life, to toil through troubles and 
sorrows, seeking the glory of another world ; that I 
might have another chance in another world to be 
born of the spirit and believe in Jesus Christ and his 
glory, and become an angel of God forever, around 
his throne. But since God has shown me, in a vision, 
my future life, living in a spiritual body, I now believe 
that this life I live in the flesh is the only life that 
I shall ever live in the flesh, to repent of my sins ; so I 
warn all to seek Jesus Christ and his glory in this 
life, for there is no other life to seek him in, for in 
the resurrection we who have lived for God will rise 
and be changed into a spiritual body forever. 

Now, it may be possible that we may be born of a 
woman again in another world, and grow up in that 
world and live in flesh and blood again, but I cannot 
find it in the Bible. I have seen my spiritual body, 
and I believe that I shall live in the next world in a 
spiritual body. 



SERMON ON PREACHING THE PURE AND 
STRAIGHT GOSPEL. 



This world is growing wicked because the Chris- 
tians are growing colder and colder, the Holy Spirit is 
not felt in the churches in these last days as it has 
been felt in the days past, because pride has taken 
possession of the church of God, and that is the 
reason why such a few sinners are coming to Jesus 
Christ ; the hymns are not sung with the same spirit 
that they were in the days past ; and the plain gospel 
is not preached with the spirit in these last days as it 
was preached in the days past, to warn the sinners of 
the wrath of God coming upon them, that they may 
stand in fear of God who has created them and 
placed them in existence for his own glory ; but men 
are not satisfied with the glory of God, so they take 
the pride of the world and drive away from them 
the holy spirit of God. There has been so much 
preaching to the sinners that God is love, so the 
sinners have come to believe that if God is love he will 
not punish them. That is one reason why the world 
is growing so wicked. There is no one in these last 



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days who has ever preached the plain gospel, to warn 
the sinners of the wrath of God coming upon them, 
as Jesus Christ and his apostles did. There is no 
one in these last days who has ever uttered while 
preaching the gospel the wrath and destruction God 
will bring upon the ungodly and the sinners, as Jesus 
Christ did in his preaching. His apostles preached 
the plain gospel, too, and every one that God has 
called to preach the gospel, he has called them to 
preach the plain gospel, to warn the sinners to flee 
from the wrath that God will bring upon them if they 
do not repent of their sins. It seems as if all the 
preaching that has been done in these latter days 
to save the world has been preached to suit the 
people of pride, and not to suit God, who has called 
them to preach this holy gospel to every creature ; but 
every one that God has called to preach his holy 
gospel, he has called to preach the whole and straight 
gospel ; and if any one whom God has called to 
preach the gospel omits any words because sinners 
don't want to hear it, and will not preach the whole 
gospel, to warn the sinners, they will have to answer 
for not preaching the straight gospel in the day of 
judgment. It will not be the sinner and the ungodly 
alone who will call for the rocks and mountains to fall 
upon them, to hide them from the face of the great 



SERMON ON PREACHING THE PURE GOSPEL. 91 

God, who is coming to sit upon his throne ; there are 
many who are in the churches in these last days who 
tremble at the word hell, — because they appear as if 
they are not right in the sight of God and don't want 
to hear the word hell, — who may call for the rocks and 
mountains to fall upon them as well as the sinners 
and the ungodly. 

We must preach the plain gospel to warn the sin- 
ners of the danger in which they stand. You know 
that there never was a beginning but what there is an 
ending also ; there was a beginning of this world and 
there will be an ending of it ; there was a beginning of 
man in this would and there will be an ending of man 
in this world, so we must soon pass from this world 
into the unseen world. Oh, yes ! my brothers and 
sisters, our time is passing away and we are growing 
older. There is nothing to stop you and I from grow- 
ing older ; we must all fade and decay, and pass away. 
Oh ! if you want to live forever and never grow old, 
you must live for God, and you will be an angel, and 
never grow old. When the good woman went to 
anoint the body of her Lord, she entered the 
sepulchre and " saw a young man sitting on the right 
side, clothed in a long white garment ; and she was 
affrighted." (Mark xvi. 5.) He was an angel and was 
more than four thousand years old, yet he looked like 



92 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

a young man. They never grow old. There is ever- 
lasting life for all Christians, but the sinner shall be 
punished. 

So we must preach the plain gospel and tell the 
sinners that all who die in their sins must be cast 
into hell, in the world of darkness, to be banished 
from God, shut out from the presence of the Lord, and 
the glory of his power; left in utter darkness and 
despair, and made to endure the wrath of God forever ; 
that this dreadful doom awaits all who die in sin. 
Every man virtually dooms himself to hell when he 
rejects the gospel ; the cup of its blessing is held to 
his lips, but he puts it away from him. When any one 
says, " I do not want Christ for my Saviour," he vir- 
tually says, " I consign myself to death and hell." Oh, 
turn, sinner ! turn unto God and be saved ! We must 
preach the plain gospel to warn the sinners and let 
them know that they are going down a broad road 
which leads to destruction. Every man will go to his 
own place, the place he is fitted for ; every man will 
go to heaven who is fit for heaven ; every man will be 
turned into hell who is fit for that place ; the vessels 
of mercy are prepared unto glory, the vessels of wrath 
are fitted to destruction. (Rom. ix. 22.) Such is the 
dreadful nature of sin, and such are its dreadful effects 
on man, that nothing can be done with the wicked 



SERMON ON PREACHING THE PURE GOSPEL. 93 

but to turn them into hell, — " every tree that bringeth 
not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the 
fire." The evil influences are growing stronger and 
stronger every day, which make men resist God's 
spirit and grace ; the force of evil habits and tempta- 
tions make the chains of guilt heavier upon the soul. 
The longer one lives in sin the less time he has to 
repent and prepare for eternity. We preach Christ 
crucified. Oh, sinner ! believe and be saved from his 
wrath that is coming. 

I will now say a few words to the Christians about 
what God has done for you by giving his Son, Jesus 
Christ, to die upon the cross for you and for me; 
the greatest gift that God could ever give was 
his Son, Jesus Christ; he gave him to save you and 
me, and if we obey him not, have we not sinned 
against the light of his truth and his knowledge, 
against his warning and his mercies, against his 
spirit, against his grace ? 

When we have known God we have not glorified 
him as God ; if we die in our sins we will be cast into 
hell. When men preach, they have a right to preach 
to sinners hell and damnation ; it is in the Bible. They 
have a right to preach to them life and salvation ; it 
is in the Bible. They have a right to preach the love 
of God ; they have a right to preach the fear of God ;. 



94 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

it is all in the Bible, They have a right to preach both 
sides of the gospel ; they have a right to preach the 
whole gospel, and not to preach sinners into heaven on 
flowery beds of ease, by cutting around words of God 
with the fancy words of men with pride, that will not 
save any one from hell, while the God-fearing people 
fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody 
seas. God wants no fine, fancy preaching, with pride, 
that will not save sinners ; he wants the plain gospel 
preached, so that every one can understand it and flee 
from the wrath to come. The world is growing fast in 
wickedness and corruption, as Sodom and Gomorrah, 
by preaching the fine, fancy words of pride to suit the 
people and not to suit God. Now if we want to please 
God we will have to preach warning sermons to the 
sinners, so that they will come to fear God and come 
to him. It was the fear of God that brought me to him. 
I knew nothing about the love of God until I came to 
God and received the love of the Holy Spirit. God has 
not called any one to plead man's cause against him, 
but his cause against the wicked. A man may be very 
just and kind to his fellow-men and yet be very sinful 
in the sight of God. He who does not love God may be 
honest in all his dealings with his fellow-man, but he 
is a thief and a robber in the sight of God. He likes 
to do what he pleases and worship something of 



SERMON ON PREACHING THE PURE GOSPEL. 95 

man's creation, which is no good to him and is not 
sufficient to give him support and strength. 

O Christian ! you know God loves you. You are 
bought with a dear price, — the Son of God nailed upon 
the Cross. You ought to work for him; you ought to 
preach for him, for the Lord deserves your warmest 
love and your highest praise. Give him all of it, keep 
back no part of the price ; live for him, plead for him, 
suffer for him, die for him. You are not your own, you 
are bought with the highest price, — the Son of God, 
nailed to the cross to save you and me, and unite our 
love with the love of God again. Oh, remember that 
there is an Eye larger than all the universe that looks 
down upon you and can see you, wherever you may be ; 
and there is an Ear can hear you, whatever you may 
say. 

The righteous try to live like Christ; they give 
God all the glory. Holiness is as excellent as it is 
necessary; unspotted holiness is the law of heaven 
and the secret of the bliss of paradise. It is not 
necessary that men should be outrageously wicked 
in order to bring a curse upon themselves. There 
is a smooth way to hell as well as a rough way to hell. 
Men often perish midst the decencies of life. I have 
just heard of one who began life and was very poor; 
he had neither friends nor money, but he resolved to 



g6 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

make himself known. He worked hard ; he saved 
all he could; he owed no man anything; he was 
honest in all his dealings; he stood high in public 
esteem ; he freely gave to the poor and to institutions. 
At fifty years of age he was the richest man in his 
State. Many thought that he was a Christian and 
thought that he was happy ; but when he was taken 
sick he became very ill ; his physicians could not do 
him any good. One of his friends told him that he 
could not live another day. He said, " It cannot be 
that I am going to die ; I shall get up to-morrow " ; 
but he grew weaker and weaker. The minutes and 
hours passing rapidly away, before the sun set death 
came for him, and as he turned to the wall in agony, 
he cried, " I am lost ; my way is dark ; I am going to 
hell." In a few minutes his spirit left his body and 
entered into eternity. 

So we must preach the pure and straight gospel, 
to let every one know his doom. 



SERMON, THE SAFETY OF THE CHURCH. 



God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. There- 
fore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the 
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters there- 
of roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling 
thereof. — Psalms xlvi. 123. 

These words express the holy and joyful confi- 
dence in which the Christian has reason to trust in 
God, whatever evils or changes he may feel or fear. 
The text sets before us the following sentiment : The 
Christians, people of God, may safely trust in him, 
whatever changes may exist on earth. " God is our 
refuge and strength," and the true knowledge of God 
is to be born of the Holy Spirit, the love of God 
shedding abroad in your heart, giving you the full 
knowledge of the love of God and his mysteries, 
through Jesus Christ, our Lord, that will abide with 
you in this world and in the world to come forever, 
where life never ends. 

We ought to teach the sinners the way to this life 
in Christ Jesus, that never ends, so that they will 
come and receive the love of the Holy Spirit in their 
hearts and perform the duties of God, and have 



98 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

hope, peace, and joy in the midst of all the evils and 
troubles, and the sorrows of this life, so that they can 
sing, by the grace of God, the song of triumph over 
death and hell, and the victory over the grave ; for 
" God is our refuge and strength, a very present help 
in trouble." In accordance to his great, wise, and 
holy purposes, he has created, and he preserves and 
governs, all things by his supreme, efficient, and uni- 
versal agency in the creation, preservation, in the 
government of all things. God exercises, manifests, 
and gratifies his perfect and infinite holiness, justice, 
and goodness ; nor can there ever be in the universe 
a single creature, action, object, or event which shall 
not be subservient to the everliving gratification 
and blessedness of the only and everlasting God. 

The true knowledge of God is essential to true 
love and faith in him, and so far as pious men and 
women are ignorant in respect to God, they fail and 
err in the exercise of faith in him. Trusting in God 
implies supreme love to him. True faith in God 
exists in the heart and is of the Holy Spirit from 
God. He is the only supreme being in existence, 
without beginning or ending, and he is God, " our 
refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." 

They who do not love God turn from him and 
oppose him in their hearts in every way they can; 



SERMON, THE SAFETY OF THE CHURCH. 99 

but they who trust in God deny themselves of pleas- 
ures of the world, and take up their cross and follow 
Christ with a joyful affection in their hearts; they 
esteem all other beings ; but when compared with 
God, it is nothing, and less than nothing ; it is vanity, 
with the Psalmist. Therefore they can truly say unto 
God : " Whom have we in heaven but thee ? and there 
is none upon the earth that we desire besides thee." 

God wants his people to work for him. He is mer- 
ciful to all who believe in him ; he is calling men here 
and there to preach the gospel to every creature ; such 
has been the call from God in every age of the world. 
Before the flood there were regular and public teachers 
of God ; Enoch the seventh was a preacher ; Noah was 
a preacher of righteousness ; Abraham and the Patri- 
archs were prophets and priests unto God in their 
own families, and they were called and appointed to 
maintain the true knowledge and worship of God in 
the world. The teacher of religion was one of the 
most important appointments in the Jewish dispensa- 
tion ; Moses, Joshua, and Samuel were the strength 
and defence of Israel ; their faithful prophets and 
priests were their glory and salvation in the Christian 
dispensation. 

God has been calling Christians here and there to 
preach the gospel to every creature unto the end of 



100 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

the world. " God is our refuge and strength ; a very 
present help in time of trouble." God takes the fool- 
ish to confound the wise of the world, to teach the 
world his wisdom, but with all the teaching and preach- 
ing, Satan has led millions of human beings down the 
broad road to endless destruction and despair. God 
has given us a rich blessing, by giving us the gospel, 
to give light on our future glory, beyond this world of 
sorrows and trouble. The atonement that Jesus Christ, 
the Son of God, made by his death on the cross is the 
only and the complete foundation of forgiveness and 
salvation from punishment. God within them makes 
them perfect in his sight, and it is his power and grace 
alone that they can safely rely upon to remove from 
themselves every spot and wrinkle, and everything, that 
they may be holy and without blemish in God. They 
trust to receive their souls in heaven, when their bodies 
die. They rise again, a glorified body, in the resurrec- 
tion, to complete their redemption at the final judg- 
ment, by their admission to the everlasting communion 
and blessedness of the righteous in the eternal kingdom 
of God. 

The people of God want to trust in God, and believe 
in God with all their heart and soul, and hold fast to 
his promise to receive the great crown of glory in the 
next life. 



SERMCW, THE SAFETY OF THE CHURCH. IOI 

After the Saviour's ascension, the churches which 
had been planted by the apostles, and watered by 
Christian martyrs, soon became corrupt. For many 
centuries there has been scarcely the appearance of 
Christianity in Asia and Africa, where numerous and 
happy churches once knew, loved, served, and enjoyed 
the only true God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
The churches of Europe for ages have been generally 
corrupted with errors, and defiled with wickedness, and 
in this land the churches seem to have but a little of 
the truth and spirit of the order and beauty of the 
discipline and happiness which attend the holy belief 
and the faithful practice of Christianity. 

Many of the churches have already fallen into fatal 
errors and selfish pride, and have slept the sleep of 
death, failing back with the world to suit the people. 
If the churches are built upon Christ Jesus, it must 
be a holy church or else it will fall to pieces. " God is 
our refuge and strength." 

What has God wrought for the redemption of 
his people from the first promise of the Saviour 
unto the calling of Abraham ? As soon as the first 
parents of mankind had sinned and exposed them- 
selves to the pain of endless death, God appeared 
and promised that the Saviour would come, so that 
all who believed in the Saviour's coming would be 



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saved; and in this promise God designs that Satan 
should be defeated, and that the Saviour should tri- 
umph over the enemy by his sacrifices and suffer- 
ings upon the cross and atonement of Christ, and 
was appointed through faith in the Redeemer. Abel 
and his religious services were accepted, while Cain 
and his services, for his unbelief, were rejected by an 
effusion of divine influence. 

In the days of Enoch, men began in an unusual 
manner in public assemblies to call upon the name of 
the Lord. The eminent piety of Enoch, his preaching 
and prophecies, with his wonderful translation, were 
great events in the early age of the Church, though the 
prevailing wickedness which existed in the increasing 
numbers of men was so great that God sent a flood 
upon the earth and destroyed them all. Yet Noah 
and his family, from whom the promised Saviour was 
to proceed, were preserved in the ark, and after the 
flood God accepted Noah's religious services and made 
him promises of great blessing. " God is our refuge 
and strength." He renewed his covenant and gave 
the rainbow for a token of the covenant. Before his 
death Noah uttered a prediction respecting his sons, 
which has been fulfilled in their posterity during the 
successive periods of the world until the present time. 

God frustrated the impious design of the builders 



SERMON, THE SAFETY OF THE CHURCH. IO3 

of Babel by confounding their language and by their 
dispersion over the face of the earth. The great thing 
God prepared for his people during the period at that 
time consisted in divine promises and predictions in 
producing and preserving piety in their hearts and 
lives. In his approbation and acceptance of the right- 
eousness of God in their hearts, to praise, exalt, and 
glorify the blessed Redeemer forever through the 
riches of divine grace in Jesus Christ, they will be 
justified, be received into heaven, and be perfectly 
blessed in the full enjoyment of God to all eternity. 
But when the wicked shall appear in judgment, they 
shall be filled with corruption, wickedness, and shame, 
and be condemned, and they will be silent and not be 
able to speak one word against the infliction of that 
punishment for which they will be fitted by treasuring 
unto themselves wrath, against the day of wrath and 
revelation of the righteous judgment. 

" God is our refuge and strength," and in him we trust. 
God will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and 
anguish, unto every soul of man that doeth evil when 
Satan, with all the fallen angels and wicked men, shall 
be cast into hell, and the righteous will go into heaven, 
crowned with everlasting life. Then the great work 
of redemption will be completed and God will forever 
show his wrath and make his power known upon the 



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vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction, and he will 
make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels 
of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory. 

God has formed the purpose of redemption in 
eternity. The work of redemption is entirely the 
work of God. In its commencement, progression, and 
conclusion, it is attended with decisive evidences of 
the divine agency. 

There is no reason to suppose that God ever created or 
made anything that he did not intend to create or make, 
and the existence and perfections of God to redeem 
his people. It is rational to believe that he formed the 
great purpose of redemption in the eternal counsel of 
his own will. Before he brought any other being into 
existence, he was able to form this purpose, and the 
same motives which induced him to accomplish this 
work in time would induce him to form the purpose 
of it in eternity. 

There is, then, as much reason to believe that God 
formed the purpose of redemption in eternity as there 
is to believe that he has any design or agency in the 
redemption of his people. Accordingly, we are taught 
by the spirit of truth that God formed the plan of 
redemption in his eternal counsel to the saints at 
Ephesus. 

The apostle writes : " Blessed be the God and 



SERMON, THE SAFETY OF THE CHURCH. 105 

father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us 
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in 
Christ : according as he hath chosen us in him before 
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy 
and without blame before him in love : having predes- 
tinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ 
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will." 
" God is our refuge and strength," " to the praise of the 
glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted 
in the beloved : ... in whom also we have obtained 
an inheritance, being predestinated according to the 
purpose of him who worketh all things" according 
to his own will. God has created all things by Jesus 
Christ, to the intent that now unto the principalities 
and powers in heavenly places, might be known by 
the Church and the manifold wisdom of God, accord- 
ing to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Jesus 
Christ our Lord, to lay the foundation for redemption 
of his people. 

God gave his Son to die on the cross for all men, for 
they are by nature sinners and condemned by the law 
to endless punishment. From such a punishment no 
human being could be saved without an atonement for 
sin, for the law says : " The soul that sinneth it shall 
die " ; " The wages of sin is death " ; and it is written, 
" Without shedding of blood there is no remission " for 



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sin. God has forbidden the salvation and redemp- 
tion of sinners from the curse of the law without the 
atonement of Christ, the foundation on which the 
whole work should rest. " Therefore," says the Lord, 
" Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a 
tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation." 
The Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation on which 
sinners can be saved. 

In view of the Saviour and of the atonement he has 
made by his death, sinners will persist in their wicked- 
ness and destroy themselves, if their hearts are not 
changed by the power of the Holy Spirit; but God 
hath said, " Thy people shall be willing in the day of 
thy power " ; and to his people he says, "A new heart I 
will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, 
and I will take the stony heart out of your flesh, and I 
will give you a heart of flesh, and I will put my spirit 
within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and 
ye shall keep my commandment and do the will of 
your Father in heaven." The Saviour says, "All 
that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and 
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." 
And the apostle says, in the name of the believers, 
" Not by works of righteousness which we have done* 
but according to his mercy. " God is our refuge and 
strength." He will save us by the washing of regen- 



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eration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. And again 
he says, " Knowing, brethren beloved, your election 
of God. For our gospel came not unto you in word 
only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in 
much assurance " of the power and grace of our Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ, his power and invincible 
influence to the people of God ; though they be by 
nature dead in sin they are quickened and united to 
the Lord Jesus Christ in truth and love; being 
renewed in the temper of their minds, they repent of 
their sins and believe in Jesus Christ, and accept the 
offer of pardon through his blood, and devote them- 
selves to his service. Though all mankind naturally 
hate God and the law and the gospel, but every one 
who is included in the covenant of redemption is 
caused by the special influence of the Holy Spirit to 
accept the salvation which is offered to sinners in the 
gospel of God, who is a refuge and strength, to keep 
us in his love. 



SERMON, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY 
JUDGMENT. 



By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of 
our salvation. — Psalms lxv. 5. 

In all ages the people of God have had many power- 
ful enemies, but they have looked to God for their 
protection and safety ; they have laid their sufferings 
and persecution before the throne and have asked God 
in their prayers to protect them from being persecuted 
and suffering by the wicked people ; so they put their 
trust in God and believe that he will maintain their 
cause and to oppose, confound, and destroy their ene- 
mies, as they have believed that he would hear and 
answer their prayers and inflict dreadful judgment 
upon the sinners who persist in their wickedness. Yet 
they have been assured that his judgment upon the 
wicked would be terrible and perfect, righteous judg- 
ment upon the sinners who break the divine laws of 
God, and dishonor him. " By terrible things in right- 
eousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation." 

Such considerations appear to have filled the mind 
of the psalmist when he wrote the psalm which con- 
tains our text; in writing this he was favored with 



SERMON, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY JUDGMENT. I(X) 

clear and hopeful views of divine blessing as it is dis- 
played in the dispensations of providence, and he was 
deeply impressed with the special favor of God towards 
his own people, in hearing their prayers and answering 
them with great blessing and happiness toward his 
saints. The psalmist, no doubt, thought that the 
judgment which he was assured that God would inflict 
upon sinners in answering the prayers of his saints 
would be terrible, but it would be a perfectly righteous 
judgment by a righteous God. In many instances 
which are recorded in the scriptures he does and will 
bring judgment upon sinners in answer to the prayers 
of his saints. It was in answer to the cries of his 
ancient people that God effected their deliverance 
from their cruel bondage in Egypt, and this deliver- 
ance was effected by the plagues he brought upon 
Egypt, by the destruction of Pharaoh and his host 
in the Red Sea, just so long as the hands of Moses 
were raised to God in prayer. " Terrible things in 
righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salva- 
tion." Yes, when Joshua went to fight against Amalek, 
Israel prevailed against their enemies, and when his 
hands were steadied by the help of Aaron and Hur, 
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the 
edge of the sword. And Joshua prayed and asked God 
while the children of Israel were fighting against the 



110 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

Amorites to stop the sun until his battle was finished 
and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until his 
people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. 

In the days of the judges, whenever the children of 
Israel sought the Lord, he gave them victories, and their 
enemies were defeated and destroyed ; and after Israel 
had been oppressed by the Philistines for many years, 
Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and as Samuel 
was offering the burnt offering the Philistines drew near 
to battle against Israel, but the Lord thundered great 
thundering on that day upon the Philistines and they 
were discomforted and were smitten before Israel by 
terrible things. " In righteousness wilt thou answer us, 
O God of our salvation." In answer to the prayer of 
David, the counsel of Ahithophel was turned into 
foolishness, and Absalom and his party were ruined. 
When Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and the Lord 
smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and 
when an immense multitude came against Jehosaphat 
he feared and turned to seek the Lord and proclaimed 
a fast throughout all Judah, and in answer to their 
prayers their enemies were destroyed. And when Sen- 
nacherib invaded Judah, Hezekiah and Isaiah prayed 
and cried unto God in heaven, the Lord sent an angel 
from heaven, and the angel went into the camp of the 
Assyrians and slew one hundred and four score and 



SERMON, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY JUDGMENT. Ill 

five thousand. When Elijah prayed that it might not 
rain, it rained not upon the earth by the space of three 
years and six months. " By terrible things upon the 
earth wilt thou answer, us O God of our salvation.'' 
And Elisha prayed to God, he smote the Syrians with 
blindness ; and when Mordecai, Esther, and the Jews 
fasted and prayed, Haman, who had formed a design 
for their destruction, was hanged on the gallows he 
had built for Mordecai, At the word of Paul, God 
smote Elymas, the sorcerer, with blindness. 

In all these instances and many more recorded in 
the scriptures, God answered the prayers of his saints 
by bringing judgment upon sinners. Now, all these 
instances are sufficient enough to prove that God 
does answer the prayers of his saints and bring judg- 
ment upon sinners in accordance to their wicked 
deeds. God always hears the prayers of his praying 
people and answers their prayers by his promises, 
which he is giving to them; he fulfilled his promise of 
mercy to his people in ancient times. When he 
promised to give the descendants of Abraham the 
land of Canaan, in order to fulfil this promise, God 
destroyed the Canaanites. 

There are many divine promises yet that God is going 
to give to his people who are crying unto him day and 
night ; all that they will ask him, for God will bestow 



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upon his saints the mercies he has promised them, 
while he threatens the wicked with a terrible judgment ; 
the righteous may possess the earth, but the wicked 
be turned into hell with all the nations that forget 
God. God will not give his full glory in the redemp- 
tion of his people, as he has promised, without con- 
signing the wicked to future and endless destruction. 
There is, therefore, reason to believe and expect that 
God will bring judgment upon sinners as he will 
bestow mercies upon his saints in answer to their 
prayers. 

The confidence which the psalmist expressed in the 
words of our text was founded on what God had done 
and on what he had promised to do in answer to the 
prayers of the righteous. The judgment that God 
brings upon sinners in answer to the prayers of his 
people, the psalmist calls, in the words of our text, 
" terrible things," and in the same language the Church 
describes the judgment of God by the prophet 
Isaiah. They say unto God, " When thou didst terrible 
things which we looked not for, thou earnest down, the 
mountains flowed down at thy presence." And the 
judgments of God against sinners are represented 
terrible, when God has appeared to avenge his own 
elect, who prayed to him day and night. Then God 
have special love to his saints and his holy wrath 



SERMON, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY JUDGMENT. II3. 

against the sinners. It is terrible as it came unex- 
pected upon sinners. Before the people of God are 
prepared for such a divine interposition in their favor, 
they are brought very low ; they see no way to escape 
from the power and hatred of their enemies, They 
all know that their help and their hope are in the 
name of God, and when the righteous are in such a 
state, the wicked triumph and are confident that they 
will prevail, they are bold in their evil devices, and 
they soon complete the measure of their sins. It is 
in such circumstance that the God to whom vengeance 
belongs shows himself at times by his mighty power, 
when he sends from heaven judgment upon the sin- 
ners and destroys them, because they are so wicked 
and have so long abused the mercies of God and defied 
his threatenings. They boast and triumph in their 
wickedness, but when they cry Peace and safety, then 
sudden destruction cometh upon them, and destroys 
them with a terrible judgment. So it was in the days 
of Noah, and when Pharaoh and the Egyptians fol- 
lowed after Israel, they fell in a moment under the 
vengeance of God. 

When sinners have been so wicked and bold, 
united and presumptuous in their designs against the 
people of God, they have been visited by his righteous 
judgment ; their efforts against the righteous when 



1 14 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

most successful have hastened their own destruction. 
Often sinners have fallen under the wrath of heaven 
when they were mocking and cursing God and the 
prayers of the righteous. Divine judgment comes 
unexpectedly to sinners and is a terrible thing. Some- 
times the wicked flee to the righteous for relief in 
their afflictions and sorrows, and through the prayers 
of the righteous they are saved from many terrible 
things. 

Pharaoh, under the plagues that were brought upon 
Egypt, called Moses and Aaron, and at the request 
of Pharaoh to Moses and Aaron they prayed to God 
and he removed the plagues. Many other sinners 
have asked the righteous the same, and have obtained 
a relief similar. In the same way there are many 
sinners in these last days, when sickness takes hold of 
them and they think that they are going to die, they 
want the prayers of God's people, and the people of God 
are always willing to help them in their prayers if they 
will help themselves ; but if the people of God turn 
their prayers against the sinners, it is a terrible thing 
to them ; they find that they are defeated and con- 
founded and are without refuge and without hope ; they 
cannot withstand their Maker nor can they escape 
from his presence ; they will fall into his hands with- 
out any support of Jesus Christ, and will faint and die 



SERMON, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY JUDGMENT. II5 

through terror, and forever be lost. The judgment of 
God against sinners is terrible, as they are evident 
expressions of his pleasure against themselves. They 
are sinful creatures and they are unwilling to see that 
they are proper objects of divine hatred and wrath. 
They commonly indulge in high opinions of their 
own goodness and innocence. After all the warnings 
and threatenings that God has made to sinners, still they 
refuse to believe that they are exposed to his wrath ; 
but when they fall under his judgment they will see 
and know that they are in the hands of an angry God, 
who is angry with sin and will punish the soul that 
sins ; and when they come to feel their own misery 
and the dreadful effects of his wrath, they will be 
overcome with terror and will sink down into hell. 

God intends by his judgments to teach the wicked 
that if they do not repent of their sins he will execute 
vengeance upon them and they shall know that " I am 
God, and when I lay my vengeance upon them, then 
the sinner shall know by the terrible judgment which 
will fall upon them that God is holy and just to 
punish them." They cannot expect anything from 
him but indignation and wrath and anguish, when 
they see and feel the wrath of God in their own tor- 
ment. They do indeed such terrible things, yet 
wicked men are so selfish and mean that they are 



I l6 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

unwilling to see and confess the divine righteousness. 
Even when they come to die the righteous pray to God 
to destroy the wickedness of the world ; they desireth 
nothing but what is right, and in all instances in 
which God has brought judgment upon sinners in 
answer to the prayers of his saints, he has done it 
because their prayers were supported by truth and 
justice. 

If the people of God were not righteous in their 
prayers, God would not answer their prayers in right- 
eousness ; but they are, because their prayers are right. 
The prayers of a righteous man availeth much, and 
God is righteous in answering the prayers, as they are 
founded on truth, justice, and righteousness, though it 
be done by terrible things. All sinners are guilty and 
condemned before God because God hates sin, but 
according to his own holiness and righteousness he 
loves his people. We are taught in the Scriptures that 
the Lord loveth the righteous and that the prayers of 
the righteous are his delight. He does what is most for 
his own glory, and his glory consists in his goodness 
which leads him to give great knowledge, holiness, and 
happiness to the righteous. It would not be right for 
God to sacrifice his own glory and the preservation 
and redemption of his people for the partial and selfish 
interests of sinners. It would not have been right for 



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God to have sacrificed his glory and his people for the 
sake of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, but it was right 
that they should perish for the glory of God and the 
salvation of his people. 

The Judge of all the earth always does right in the 
condemnation and destruction of sinners, and in his 
approbation and salvation of saints he rises far above 
partiality and injustice ; when he answers his people, 
as the God of their salvation, by terrible things in 
righteousness, the people of God ask him in their 
prayers to give them what is best in answering their 
prayers by his terrible judgment. 

So then, it is right for God to do what is best. His 
judgment upon sinners in answer to the prayers of 
saints, though they be exceedingly terrible, are perfectly 
righteous, as God is righteous, and will give to every- 
one justice. 

There is no reason to doubt the prayers that are 
recorded in the Scriptures on the destruction of sin- 
ners. There are many such prayers in the Scriptures. 

When Deborah and Harak celebrated the triumph 
of Israel and the destruction of their enemies, they said, 
" So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord " ; and when 
Nehemiah was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, he 
prayed against his enemies in these words : " Hear, O 
our God ; for we are despised, and turn their reproach 



Il8 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the 
land of captivity : and cover not their iniquity, and let 
not their sin be blotted out from before thee : for they 
have provoked thee to anger before the builders." 

David said unto God, " Break thou the arm of the 
wicked and the evil man : seek out his wickedness till 
thou find none." He says, " Let destruction come 
upon him at unawares ; and let his net that he hath 
hid catch himself : into that very destruction let him 
fall "; and John says, " I saw under the altar the souls 
of them that were slain for the word of God, and for 
the testimony which they held and they cried with a 
loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, 
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them 
that dwell on the earth ?" 

These prayers have been thought very difficult to 
explain. It has been thought that no one would ever 
offer such prayers ; but it appears from the preceding 
discourse that in answering such prayers God is per- 
fectly righteous, and his people may be righteous in 
offering such prayers. These prayers do not imply a 
desire that sinners may not repent and obtain salvation, 
but they imply a desire that such sinners who insist in 
their wickedness should be cut down and destroyed, 
and it is perfectly righteous for God to destroy the 
unrighteous according to their wicked deeds. 



SERMON, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY JUDGMENT. II9 

The prayers of saints for divine judgments upon 
sinners are consistent with the spirit and practice of 
Christian forgiveness to personal enemies, and the most 
ardent desires for their present and future happiness, 
as it is viewed in itself. Such prayers, then, do not 
oppose the most enlightened benevolence, but they 
arise from the spirit If God be righteous in answering 
the prayers of saints by judgment upon sinners, then 
we ought to praise God for his righteous judgments. 

When Pharaoh and the Egyptians were destroyed 
in the Red Sea, Moses and the children of Israel sung 
a song of praise to God for his righteousness in 
their destruction. The Book of Psalms abounds with 
praises to God for his judgment upon sinners. At 
the destruction of mystical Babylon, a voice from 
heaven cried, " Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye 
holy apostles and prophets ; for God hath avenged you 
on her." And John says, " I heard a great voice of 
much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia, Salvation, and 
glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God : 
for true and righteous are his judgments." 



VISION AND NATURE. NATURE IS GOD 
AND GOD IS NATURE. 



To see a vision you must be born again of the Holy 
Spirit and believe in Jesus Christ with all your heart 
and soul, and let go the world and fix your mind upon 
the heavenly things and live for Jesus Christ and do 
the will of your Father which is in heaven ; then if you 
are a chosen one of God, sometimes when you are 
alone praying to God with your whole soul and body, 
being united with God in heaven, the Holy Spirit will 
draw away your mind, which is your spirit, and open 
the heavenly vision and show your spirit many beau- 
tiful things in heaven, and the glory of God at that 
time, — it seems to you that you are almost in heaven. 

God caused many of his chosen people to see visions 
and dream dreams, even unto this day, that his word 
may be fulfilled that they may see and know the glory 
of his kingdom, as his people saw and knew his glory 
in the ages former. 

Oh, my friends, the glory of God is the same to-day 
as it was when Jesus Christ was upon the earth ; but 
you cannot see Jesus Christ and his glory now, neither 
can you know him but through the Holy Spirit, and 



VISION AND NATURE. 121 

the Holy Spirit goes with the spiritual hymns ; but 
the spiritual hymns are not sung with the spirit to-day 
that they were sung in the past, neither is the gospel 
preached with the same spirit that it was in the ages 
past. 

If the gospel was preached with the spirit and the 
hymns sung with the spirit, as they were in the ages 
past, you would see people coming to Jesus Christ as 
fast as they came in the former ages. 

Oh, my friends, after you have believed in Jesus 
Christ, never rest any more until the love of the Holy 
Spirit sheds abroad in your hearts. Then you will 
know that you have been born of the Spirit, because 
you will have a love within you that you never had 
before, which makes you love God whom you have 
never seen with your natural eyes ; then you will know 
that there is a God who has sent this great love into 
your hearts, that fills your whole body and soul with 
peace and joy, so that you cannot forget him, and your 
faith will be so strong that no one upon the earth can 
ever turn you away from God ; but if you have never 
felt this great love of the Holy Ghost, you will think 
sometimes that you are nothing because you have 
never felt the love, but the love of the world ; therefore 
you lose your faith sometimes because you have never 
seen anything or never have felt the great love of 



122 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

God ; but if you have felt that great love of the Holy 
Ghost which makes you love God with all your heart 
and soul, and makes you reach out after all the world 
to save them, then you will know God by his love in 
your heart, and your faith will never fade away. 

Many times I have heard men say that there is no 
God ; everything comes by nature and by chance ; 
nature brings forth all things and through nature all 
things grow. Yes ; but what is nature and chance ? 
Their answer to me is, " I don't know." Well, then, 
tell me what is beyond nature and chance that forces 
nature and chance to create and form all things in its 
own shape, and causes everything to grow in all its 
bloom and beauty of life. " I don't know what it is." 
Well, then, you have said that there is no God and 
you do not believe in a God, still you believe in nature 
and in chance. Now, my friend, when you believe in 
nature and in chance, you believe in a God, for it is 
God who has made and created all nature, the heavens 
and the earth and all things thereof, and by his power 
in nature all things are made and created to grow in 
all its bloom and beauty of life. Now, you can apply 
the universe as God, and God as the universe, and 
you can apply nature and chance as God, as well as 
the universe; for he has made two laws to govern 
all the universe, the sun, the moon, the stars, the 



VISION AND NATURE. 1 23 

earth, the wind, the clouds around the earth, with all 
the waters and the snow of heaven, — all are governed 
by the laws of God, that govern and rule the great uni- 
verse. God has made the laws, and he is the law, and 
he is the law-giver. So you have acknowledged that 
there is a God when you say that all things come by 
nature and by chance. God is in nature, and all 
nature and chance is in God and God in nature, 
because it is God's works. The whole universe is put 
in existence by his laws that are called nature, that he 
has made to regulate the whole universe which he has 
created and put in existence. 

Now, has nature been in existence always ? When 
there was no world, there was no nature ; but after 
God made and created the world and put it in exist- 
ence, in the space in the mid-air, he made the laws to 
regulate the whole universe, and by these laws the 
earth is regulated, and revolving in the mid-air of the 
heavens ; and by these laws the earth is filled with 
the force of the life of nature, giving life to all things, 
and causes them to grow upon the earth by the power 
of the great Creator in the earth and the whole uni- 
verse, who gives life to all things to bring forth fruit 
upon the earth. 

Should God withdraw the life from the growing 
things of nature ? Then they must fade and die and fall 



124 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

to the earth. God has made the laws of the universe to 
give life to everything and these laws we call nature 
because everything, comes by them and dies by them. 
The life in nature has been coming forth from nature 
and passing out again from the laws of nature into 
eternity ever since the universe was made ; and every- 
thing was created and nature received life from God, 
who has made the laws and is the life of these laws, 
bringing forth life until nature is destroyed. The laws 
of nature belong to the world, and the divine laws 
belong to heaven. They are the spiritual laws of 
God, and the laws of nature belong to the devil ; and 
these two laws are enmity against each other ; they 
cannot agree together, for the laws of nature growing 
within the flesh cause the soul to be carnally minded. 
That bringeth forth death and is enmity against God 
and cannot please God as long as the evil spirit remains 
growing within you. 

If you die before you are born of the Holy Spirit, 
you cannot be transformed into the likeness of Jesus 
Christ, so you must be lost and be cast into hell for- 
ever. 

Now, the infidel says that there is no God. The 
world has been always, and everything comes by nature 
and by chance ; and I said to him, " How did you come 
into the world ? " He said, " I came into the world by 
means of my father and mother." " Yes, but how did 



VISION AND NATURE. 1 25 

they come into the world ? " " Oh, we all come into the 
world by nature and by chance. " Well, what great 
power lies back of nature and chance, that forces life 
in nature in all its bloom to make everything grow in 
all its beauty of life ? " " I cannot tell." 

Now, you have said that you do not believe in a 
God, but you believe in nature and chance. If you 
believe in nature, you believe in a God, because nature 
is the laws of God, and God is the power in nature, 
bringing forth life in all its bloom and beauty. Nature 
is the law of God that brought you and me into the 
world, and we live by the laws of nature ; and when we 
break the last life-law of nature, we must die. God 
is the great power that puts us all in existence by 
nature, and the laws of nature are connected with the 
sun, the moon, and the stars, coming and going, bring- 
ing cold and heat, one after another passing around 
the earth with winter, still colder weather with ice and 
snow upon the mountain-top, while in the valleys of 
the earth the grass is growing green and the laws of 
nature and winter are passing away, and the summer 
of nature coming and bringing forth warmer weather 
with all the beautiful scenes of nature growing in all 
its trees and flowers. The grass is growing green ; 
the bloom of nature putting forth the fragrance of per- 
fume in the air ; the birds are singing their summer 
tunes until the summer scenes have passed and gone. 



AVOID SIN IN EVERY FORM AND SHAPE. 



A man must eat and drink and sleep, but he does 
these things in moderation, but there is no such thing 
as sinning in moderation ; sin is an evil, and we must 
avoid every sin because it bringeth forth death to the 
soul. There are good reasons for keeping far from 
evil. Sin in every shape, form, and fashion is evil. 
Your sin may be secret with you ; it may be pleasant ; 
it may be popular. Sin may be a pleasure for you, 
but sin never changes its nature ; sin is evil, it is con- 
tinually of the nature of fire to burn and of poison to 
kill ; it is of the nature to bring wrath and ruin to 
work out its own fair and proper results ; sin has 
never done any good for any one, for it is evil ; sin 
comes before us in so many ways and tempts us by 
means so unexpected that we must be constantly on 
the watch lest we be led astray. 

Some form of sin is pleasing to every carnal heart; at 
times it comes before us in ways we never looked for. 
It was Job's wife that called on him to curse God and 
die ; it was Peter who said, " Be it far from thee Lord," 
and received the rebuke. " Get thee behind me, Satan; 



AVOID SIN IN EVERY FORM AND SHAPE. \2"J 

for thou savorest not the things that be of God, but 
those that be of men." (Matt. xvi. 23.) 

Sometimes one might innocently do things if he 
alone were concerned, but, because others who 
have weak consciences are present and know his 
practice, he cannot go on without sin ; even a good 
man may abuse his liberty and walk uncharitably 
in all this ; he may break no law, but the law of love 
and pity to a weak brother who is wrong in his views, 
but who is yet honest in his conscience. Paul was 
right when he said, " If meat make my brother to 
offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth." 
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes, 
and himself not be burned ? Can one walk upon hot 
coals and his feet not be burned ? (Proverbs vi. 27, 28.) 
So neither can a man in any way meddle with sin and 
not be hurt. Men have gone into a burning, fiery 
furnace and have come out without having their hair 
singed by the flames of fire that pass upon them ; but 
no man ever lay down with sin in his bosom and rose 
without a stain on his soul if he has not been forgiven. 
We should avoid sin and keep away from all evil, for 
the effect of sin is so dreadful it wrings from the 
soul every sigh sent up from earth or hell ; it has dug 
every grave and built every prison and every tomb, it 
has filled the earth and hell with woes ; it makes war 



128 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

on God ; it casts off his bonds and cuts his cords 
asunder. It is easy for men to think too much of evil, 
but wicked men do not believe sin to be a curse ; but 
sin is a curse to every one. If a man does not 
abstain from all appearance of evil it proves that he 
loves sin and his heart goes out after it. The sow 
proves her swinish nature by loving to wallow in the 
mud ; there never was a wolf that did not love blood ; 
it is the wicked that love all manner of evil. He 
who parleys with sin must have an unhappy life. 

There are some men who seem to be always sin- 
ning and repenting. If they were born of the Holy 
Spirit they would try to do what is right, and live 
for Christ. It is sad to see husband and wife quarrel- 
ing one hour and loving the next hour. It is just so 
with some men ; they are enemies against God and 
at war with him; they have no settled peace; their 
prospects are dark and gloomy. It is only they who 
abstain from all sin and evil who can rest upon Jesus 
Christ and have peace. Joseph could have kept out 
of Pharaoh's dungeon, but he had a conscience to 
do right; Jeremiah might have been a favorite with 
the people but his conscience forced him to tell the 
truth; Jesus Christ might have been made a king, but 
when he said his kingdom was not of this world they 
put him to death. Any one who is born of the Holy 



AVOID SIN IN EVERY FORM AND SHAPE. 



Spirit and follows Jesus Christ, and lives for him, 
establishes his title to the kingdom of heaven, and 
will avoid sin and every evil, and prove himself 
blameless, and secures help from God in every trouble. 
That the God of peace may sanctify you wholly, I 
pray God that our whole spirit and soul and body 
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, to make 
you pure and upright, that you may have the aid of 
God in all your Christian warfare. These views are 
sound. 

It is a matter of history that when miracles ceased, 
nothing had such power over the world as the holy 
lives of Christians. Many men and women asked, 
What is this new doctrine that made good men out 
of bad men ? Is there anything better to prove the 
Bible to be from God than the fact that it leads the 
soul to God ? There were two infidels that used to 
talk much against the Christians in the presence of 
a Christian man. After a while one of the infidels 
was converted; he was then concerned lest he should 
have shaken the faith of the Christian man. He 
said, " Did not our conversation make you doubt the 
truth of religion ? " " No," said the Christian man ; 
" it never made the least impression upon me." " How 
is that ? " said the other. The answer was, " I knew 



I30 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

your manner of living ; I knew that to maintain such 
a course of conduct you found it necessary to re- 
nounce Christianity." A wicked life often makes a 
man a heretic or an infidel. It is not strange that 
these things are so. Pride and humility cannot live and 
reign in the same bosom ; selfishness and benevolence 
are never striking features of the same character ; 
ambition is utterly opposed to contentment, and con- 
tentment is no less opposed to ambition. If malice 
reigns, meekness must be shut out ; if meekness pre- 
vails, malice must be subdued. God has created all 
living beings, but he has never made one that had 
the nature both of the lion and the lamb, the saint 
and the sinner. 



WILL NOT BELIEVE THE BIBLE. 



I cannot understand why the wicked people will not 
believe in Jesus Christ whom God has sent into the 
world to save them from their sins. They will take a 
history of a country that has been written over three 
thousand years, and read it and believe it to be true, 
but when they take the Bible and read it, which 
is the word of God, handed down from heaven to 
show the people the right way to live, the true his- 
tory to let the world know that there is a heaven and 
there is a hell, they say that there is no hell and will 
not believe the Bible. Now, if the wicked people will 
not believe the Bible, how can they believe in a 
history of a country any more than they can believe 
in the Bible when the Bible is just as much history as 
any history of a country ? They all believe in great 
men of the world, in the ages passed whom they 
have never seen, but they will not believe in Jesus 
Christ because they have never seen him. Now, how 
can they say that they believe in the great men in the 
ages passed and cannot believe in Jesus Christ when 
they have never seen the great men in the ages 
passed and neither have they ever seen Jesus Christ ? 



132 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

So, if the history of a country is true, the Bible is true ; 
for the Bible is the word of God, a history from God, 
handed down to all men to teach them that there is a 
God and there is a heaven and there is a hell for all 
to shun ; for hell is a place of punishment, and 
heaven is a place of rest. God has given his law 
to the world to teach all how to live in this world to 
become his sons and daughters. Now, sin is of the 
devil, and we must watch and pray. 

Jesus said, in Matthew, Chap. xv. 11: " Hear, and 
understand : Not that which goeth into the mouth 
defileth a man ; but that which cometh out of the 
mouth, this defileth a man." In this same Chap. xv. 
15 : " Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare 
unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also 
yet without understanding? Do not ye yet under- 
stand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth 
into the belly, and is cast out into the draught ? But 
those things which proceed out of the mouth come 
forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For 
out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, 
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blas- 
phemies : These are the things which defile a man : 
but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man." 

If any one eat or drink too much of anything, to make 
himself sick, he persecutes his own body, which is a 



WILL NOT BELIEVE THE BIBLE. 1 33 

sin ; for God gives the body to the soul to live in, for 
the glory of the soul in this world ; and man must not 
persecute his own body, for if any one persecutes his 
body that God has given to him for the glory of his 
soul to live in, to seek the glory of his spiritual life in 
the next world, he commits a sin. For God gives man 
his body to live in it and to take care of it, and not to 
persecute it in any shape or form, because it is the 
temple for the Holy Ghost to live in until God calls 
the soul from the body to him. Do not persecute 
your body, and beware of all temptation, for tempta- 
tion will tempt you and cause you to commit sin, and 
drag your soul down into hell. 

If men would read the sermon of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ, that he preached upon the 
mountain to his apostles, and understand it, they would 
all believe in him. It is the greatest sermon that has 
ever been preached since the world was created, and 
the greatest that ever will be preached while the world 
stands ; and there is enough in that sermon to save 
the whole world, but they all must seek to know Jesus 
Christ and believe in him, and receive the love of the 
Holy Ghost in their hearts, so that their eyes may be 
open to see and know the great power of God and his 
love, or they will be damned forever more and never 
see God. 



ETERNITY. 



Eternity means existence without beginning or 
without ending, with no time to reckon, nor never 
can time be reckoned, for it is a reply to God him- 
self, who is an existing spirit, without beginning or 
ending ; and the existence in God, who is the life of 
all things, has applied to every being that he has 
created in his own image, — eternal existence, spirit 
without ending. Whether the spirit exists in heaven 
with God and his angels, or whether the spirit exists 
in hell with the devil and his angels, it will exist 
throughout all eternity, that has no end in the heav- 
enly world, or in hell, the world of darkness, — in the 
space that has no end, no sides, no bottom, no top, — 
where millions of worlds have been made by the 
great Creator and put in existence, — that we will 
see and go from world to world when we leave this 
world and be with God in his glory. 



THIS IS ONE OF MY PRAYERS THAT 
OFTEN PRAY TO MY GOD WHEN I 
AM ALONE IN MY ROOM. 



My Father who art in heaven, I know that thou 
hast made and created all things, and I come to thee 
because I know that thou art my creator; I know 
that I am not a self-made being. I come to thee, who 
has created me and put me in existence for thine own 
glory; and, O Father, I know that I belong to thee, 
because thou hast created me in thine own image, and 
I know that there is no other God but thee. So, Father, 
I belong to thee, and it is right for me to love and fear 
thee and serve thee with all my heart, for I know that 
I can get nothing except it comes from thee, for my 
health and strength and all my living must come from 
thee. O Father, my life is in thy hands ; if I have 
committed any sin, forgive me in the name of Jesus 
Christ, and fill my heart and soul with the love of the 
Holy Spirit, for I am weak and sinful and do not 
deserve thy grace. But, O Father, when I think of 
Jesus Christ, thy Son, who suffered and died upon the 
cross, that by his blood my sins are forgiven, and 



I36 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

my soul is made whiter than snow, it makes my soul 
rejoice day and night in thy love. O Father, I come 
to thee, and fall before thy mercy seat. Fill my heart 
and soul with the love of the Holy Spirit, and keep 
me from all temptation, harm, and danger, and guide 
me through my life so that my heart and soul will be 
united in thy love forever. O Father, protect thy 
people and let not the wicked persecute them. O 
Father, I pray to thee that I may soon see the coming 
of Jesus Christ, thy Son, upon earth, to take charge of 
thy people and destroy the wickedness of the world. 
O Father, I know that it is thy will for me to give to 
all men justice, as thou wilt give to me justice. O 
Father, give unto me wisdom and knowledge, that I 
may know thy will and power ; that I may teach some 
one else. O Father, bless and keep me in thy love 
till thou callest me home to rest. In the name of Jesus 
Christ I ask this blessing. Amen. 



EXPLAINING THE PARABLE OF THE 
RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, 



There was a rich man ; he was blest with plenty of 
this world's goods ; he had plenty to live on in this 
world, but he was not rich with the love of God and 
his grace in his heart to receive the everlasting life in 
the heavenly world. He was rich, but Lazarus was a 
poor beggar; he had nothing to live on, to keep him 
alive in this world ; he was laid at the rich man's gate, 
full of sores. We know not who laid him there. He 
desired to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the 
table, but the poor beggar failed to get a crumb which 
fell from the rich man's table, and, as he lay at the 
rich man's gate helpless, and had nothing to eat and 
no one to help him, the dogs came and licked his sores. 
Even the dogs seemed to have more mercy upon the 
beggar by coming and licking his sores than the rich 
man with all his wealth. But " it came to pass, that 
the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into 
Abraham's bosom : the rich man also died, and was 
buried ; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in 
torment, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in 



I38 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

his bosom ... he cried and said, Father Abraham, 
have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip 
the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for 
I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, 
Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth 
thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : 
but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 
And beside all this, between us and you there is a 
great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from 
hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, 
that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray 
thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him 
to my father's house, for I have five brethren ; that 
he may testify unto them, lest they also come into 
this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, 
They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear 
them. And he said, nay, father Abraham: but if 
one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 
And Abraham said unto him, If they hear not Moses 
and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded," 
though one arose from the dead. There are great 
multitudes of people that will not believe that there 
are flames of fire in hell ; Christians as well as sinners 
will not believe it ; so, if there are no flames of fire 
in hell, what did Jesus Christ mean when he said, 
" In hell the rich man lifted up his eyes, being in 



THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. I39 

torment, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus 
in his bosom, he cried and said, Father Abraham, 
have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may- 
dip his ringer in water, and cool my tongue ; for I 
am tormented in this flame." 

Now, what did the rich man want Lazarus to dip 
his finger in water to cool his tongue for, if there 
was not a great heat from the flames of fire upon 
him? Yes, all the world say that it is nothing but 
a parable ; yes, it is a parable, but it is a parable 
that Jesus Christ held up to all the wicked world 
for an example, and wants all the sinners to learn 
of it and understand that there are flames of fire 
in hell, where all sinners must be punished if they do 
not repent of their sins ; for God has warned all to 
turn away from it and follow him, the strait way 
that leadeth into life everlasting. Jesus Christ taught 
his apostles many parables ; he wanted them to learn 
of the parable of the rich man in hell and Lazarus 
in Abraham's bosom, which teaches us that the cause 
of the rich man being in the flames in hell is 
because he was a wicked man, and this parable is 
to teach us that if we live the wicked life that he 
lived we will be cast into hell in the flames, as he 
was. 

God is warning the sinners day and night. He is 



I4O THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

preaching to them by the great storms, lightning, and 
thunder passing over the earth, with destruction on 
land and sea, warning them of their time being near 
at hand ; he is warning them by sending death to take 
one here and there, as he is warning them by the para- 
ble of the rich man and Lazarus, — the rich man in 
hell, and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. Now, you 
must go to your final home, as the rich man and 
Lazarus went to their final homes. And there are 
two roads for you to choose, — either of those two 
roads. One is a broad road, and the other is a straight 
and narrow road. You do not know which of these 
roads is the safest for you to go, and there comes a 
man who is a friend to you, who knows the best and 
safest road for you to take. He tells you that the 
broad road is the way to destruction, and a distance 
from here is a gulf across the bad road, and a bad 
bridge across the gulf, which you must go over, and if 
you start to go over the bad bridge it will fall, and you 
will be lost. Then you will say to him, " I am glad 
you have warned me of the danger of this bad road, 
for I would have taken it to go home ; but now I will 
take the strait and narrow road, which will lead me to 
my happy home." 

Now, Jesus has warned you and me of the broad 
road that leadeth to hell, by the parable of the rich 



THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. I41 

man in hell, and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. Christ 
did not come to call the righteous, he came to call 
sinners to repentance, and to tell them the right way 
to live. Jesus was earnest in teaching them ; he never 
seemed to have a smile upon his face. It seems as if 
there was silence in his heart as he taught the great 
multitudes that followed him everywhere. He was 
always ready to teach them eternal life if they would 
listen to him. They came from everywhere to hear 
him speak, for no man ever spoke as he spoke to 
them, that they might know who he was. He taught 
to them the plain gospel ; he spoke to them by para- 
bles. It seems as if every word that he spoke while 
he was upon the earth he meant to teach the everlast- 
ing life to all; and we must do the same. 

Oh, come to Christ, ail ye sinners, rich and poor, 
who hath the great power that will wash and cleanse 
you in his blood by the Holy Ghost. It is God who 
applies the power that cleanses and purifies your soul 
from all filthiness, and makes it white as snow. Then 
you can go on your journey to the heavenly world, 
washed and cleansed whiter than snow. Yes, he 
cleanses all his people and prepares them for his 
kingdom, where they will receive their crown of life. 
Oh, think of the parable of the rich man in hell and 
Lazarus carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. 



142 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

Jesus Christ has warned all sinners of this parable. 
Which will you choose for your rest, O sinners ? If the 
grace of God is not in your heart to carry you through, 
and you should ever get to the golden gates of the 
great City of God, you cannot enter in and must die 
in your sins and go to hell, where the rich man went ; 
but, if you believe in Jesus Christ, who died for you 
and rose from the dead, you can be saved by his blood 
and overcome your sins, and he will cleanse you from 
all your filthiness, and he will set you free from every 
sin that holds you in captivity. Jesus gives his 
grace freely ; trust him to cleanse you and the work 
will surely be done ; trust to him who hung upon the 
tree to redeem his people and you are delivered ; trust 
him to sanctify you wholly by his spirit and he will 
purify you till every spot and blemish is gone. It is 
his work to save his people from their sins ; believe in 
him and you shall triumph in his salvation. 

O sinners, just as long as you let your affections 
be captured by theatre and opera and dance halls, and 
all other evils sports of the world, you cannot be 
cleansed and be saved by the blood of Christ, for all 
these evil sports will not lead you to Christ but they 
will lead you down the broad road in the world of 
darkness in hell where the rich man lifted up his eyes 
in the flames, and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus 



THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. I43 

in his bosom. And if there are any that profess to be 
Christians, belong to churches, who go to theatres, 
opera houses, and dance halls, and to all these evil 
sports of the world, they do not belong to Christ and 
they have no interest in him, for the Holy Spirit and 
the spirit of the devil cannot dwell in one heart 
together; for the Holy Spirit teaches me that these are 
sports of the world and they are wicked ; and if pro- 
fessed Christians have been born of the Spirit, the 
Spirit will teach them that these are wicked sports. 
If Jesus Christ had taught his apostles and all Christians 
to go to all worldly sports, it would not be wicked to 
go ; but he did not teach one of them to go to any 
sport of the world, for they are wicked sports and 
will lead you down to hell ; neither did he go to any 
of these places of amusement himself. If the pro- 
fessed Christians, who say that they have been con- 
verted and are now partakers of the divine love of the 
Holy Spirit, continue going to the theatre and opera 
house and the dance halls, and to all the sports of 
the world which are the pleasures of the world, then 
what will the sinners say to the Christian people. They 
will say, " We are just as good as you Christians are. 
When we go to the theatre and the opera houses we 
see many of you there who profess to be Christians, 
and when we go to the dance halls we see you there ; 



144 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

we see you professed Christians going and enjoying 
all the evil sports of the world, just as well as we 
enjoy them, everywhere we go. We are just as good 
as you Christians are." 

Now, my brothers and sisters who go to these wicked 

places, you are setting a bad example, for, you lead 

sinners from Christ. Now, you cannot lead sinners to 

Christ if you are going to all these wicked places of 

sports after you are converted. To lead sinners to 

Christ, you must be separated from the world, and all 

its evil sports, for they belong to the world and not to 

heaven; you must give to all men justice, and seek to 

know the wisdom of God and his will, and be born of 

the Spirit ; then the love of God will shed abroad in 

your hearts, and you will be saved ; but if you have 

not been born of the Spirit, you do not know God 

and his love, and you have no part in him, and you 

must die and be cast into everlasting fire, prepared 

for the devil and his angels, where the rich man 

lifted up his eyes in the flames of fire. Even if 

you can repeat, verse after verse, all through the 

Bible, and have not been born of the Spirit, it does 

not make you a Christian, and will not do you any 

good. If you are a Christian, you have been born 

of the Spirit, you have died with Christ upon the 

cross ; that is, you are now dead to the pleasures 



THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. 1 45 

of the world, you do not desire them any longer, 
because you have been baptized in Jesus Christ, 
and are now buried with him by baptism in his 
death, and have turned your back upon the world, 
with all its pleasures, and are now walking in the 
new life, — Christ in you, and you in him, grafted 
together, waiting and looking for his coming. 



SERMON. 



Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee. — 1 Chron. xxii. 16. 

These words were spoken to Solomon by his father 
David, to build the temple. It had been in the heart 
of David to perform this work, but there was some 
reason why he was not allowed to do it. He was 
promised a son who would be given wisdom to build 
the house of the Lord. With this divine promise 
David was well pleased, and before his death he made 
great preparations for the work which Solomon was 
to perform ; then he called Solomon his son and 
charged him to build the temple for the God of Israel, 
which was important. He gave him instructions 
respecting the duty he had to perform. " Arise there- 
fore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee." In 
these words Solomon was urged to exert himself in an 
important service for the Lord God of Israel. He 
then began the great, important work of building the 
temple. 

There are still important objects to be accom- 
plished for God by man, and we must do it. The 
gospel must be preached among all nations. To 



SERMON. I47 



his first disciples the Saviour said, as it is written in 
the gospel of Matthew, " Go ye therefore, and teach all 
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching 
them to observe all things whatsoever I have com- 
manded you: and, lo I am with you alway, even unto 
the end of the world." And as it is written in the gos- 
pel of Mark, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the 
gospel to every creature." They were obedient to these 
divine commands, and started out to preach the gos- 
pel everywhere, and the gospel is still being preached 
to-day in all the world. John declares, by the spirit of 
prophecy, that he saw an angel fly in the midst of 
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto 
them that dwell on the earth, to every nation, kindred, 
and tongue. By these prophetic declarations we are 
bound to believe that the everlasting gospel of the 
Lord Jesus Christ must be preached in all its purity 
with power among all nations, and every false religion 
must be destroyed from the face of the earth, which 
belongs to the devil. In the Scripture Satan is called 
the god of this world. He has deceived the people 
and they have turned from the knowledge and service 
of the living and true God. They have believed and 
performed the services that have been pleasing to the 
father of lies. 



I48 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

At the present day, error and delusion on relig- 
ious subjects seem to be spreading over the earth. 
At least two thirds of the millions of people who 
now exist on the earth are involved in the total 
darkness of heathenish delusion and wickedness, and 
they are bitter enemies to the true Christians. So, 
" Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with 
thee." Even in the parts of the world in which the 
gospel is known the greatest part of the people are 
ignorant of the saving power. They choose to remain 
under the influence of the evil spirit of delusions ; but 
God has declared that he will destroy the face of the 
covering cast over all the wicked people, and the veil 
that is spread over all nations. Then the devil will 
be bound, and his influence be destroyed for a thou- 
sand years ; during this period all fatal errors and 
delusions on religious subjects will cease. Then God 
will destroy from the face of the earth every false 
religion ; then the whole world will turn unto the true 
God. 

The accomplishment of this important object is 
evident from numerous declarations in the holy Scrip- 
tures. By the psalmist it is written, " All the world 
shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the kin- 
dreds of the nations shall worship before thee." By 
Isaiah it is written, " And it shall come to pass in the 



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last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall 
be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be 
exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto 
it." By Daniel it is written, " The kingdom and 
dominion, and the greatest of the kingdom under the 
whole heaven, shall be given to the saints of the most 
high, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom." 
By John we are informed that when the seventh angel 
sounded there were great voices in heaven, saying " The 
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of 
our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for 
ever and ever." 

It is evident that all nations are to be brought to 
Christ to be blest with his salvation. The prevalence 
of the gospel in its saving influence throughout the 
world, and the conversion of all nations to the ser- 
vice and favor of God, constitute the most important 
object that can be accomplished before the judgment 
of the great day. But the gospel shall be preached 
among all nations ; the Scripture must be fulfilled. 

We are indebted for information respecting these 
objects, and to the Scriptures we ought to look and 
understand the charge of David to Solomon. He said, 
" Now, my son, the Lord be with thee ; and prosper 
thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he 
hath said of thee. Only the Lord give thee wisdom and 



150 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, 
that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God. 
Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfill 
the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged 
Moses with concerning Israel." David charged Solo- 
mon to follow the instructions which God had given 
concerning Israel in his exertions for building the 
temple, and it is only in view of divine truth that 
anything can be done with wisdom, faith, and safety 
towards those objects that are to be accomplished for 
the name of the Lord among the nations of the earth. 
They who would make proper exertions for these 
objects should study the volume of divine instruction, 
and in their exertions they should bear in mind the 
doctrines and duties, the designs and predictions, the 
promises and threatenings, the rewards and punishment 
which God has revealed and taught in the Scriptures. 
Such exertions as agree with the instructions which 
God has given in the Scriptures will be made with 
wisdom and safety and success. Exertions are to be 
made for the accomplishment of these objects in the 
exercise of holy and ardent affections. 

With such affections, the importance and excellence 
of these objects will be seen and felt. Their accomp- 
lishment will be desired, and exertions for their 
accomplishment will be constant and vigorous. But 



SERMON. I 5 I 



without believing who will ever arise above his own 
selfish interests ? Who will ever deny himself, and 
give his heart and his influence and his property 
to advance the glory of his Creator and to pro- 
mote the happiness of his fellow creatures ? Without 
holy and ardent affections no person will follow the 
example of prophets and apostles and martyrs, and 
of the Lord Jesus Christ, in labor and prayers and 
sufferings for the kingdom of God. When David 
had given his charge to Solomon, he commanded all 
the princes of Israel to help his son, saying, " Now 
set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your 
God ; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of 
the Lord God." Respecting his own conduct, David 
said unto all the congregation of Israel, " Now I have 
prepared with all my might for the house of my God. 
. . . I have set my affection unto the house of my 
God." And he said again, " Who is willing now to 
consecrate his service this day unto the Lord ? " Then 
many who love to serve God brought their treasures 
to build the house of the Lord, and offered with a 
willing heart to the Lord. 

Such holy, ardent affections as glowed in the heart 
of David and in the hearts of his people must exist 
in every person who makes proper exertions for the 
glory of God and for the enlargement of his kingdom 



152 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

by bringing souls into his kingdom. These objects 
demand and deserve the most ardent affections and 
the most vigorous exertions of every human being. 
No exertions which do not arise from holy and ardent 
affections are worthy of the objects which are yet to 
be accomplished on the earth for the glory of God. 
There is no reason for any degree of fear or distrust 
respecting these objects. They are of unbounded 
excellence and of eternal importance; their perfect 
accomplishment is secured by the truth, grace, and 
power of God. Every proper exertion for their 
accomplishment will be crowned with great success 
as infinite wisdom and goodness can desire. They 
therefore who are engaged to promote these objects 
have abundant reason for firm and joyful confidence, 
and such confidence must be maintained in order to 
make proper exertions. 

There are many difficulties, many enemies, and 
many dangers, which are in themselves suited to pro- 
duce discouragement and despondence. None will be 
constant and vigorous in their exertions unless they 
have such faith as sees light in the midst of darkness, 
gains strength in weakness, and rejoices in God in 
charge. Respecting the temple, David said to Solo- 
mon, " Be strong, and of good courage ; dread not, nor 
be dismayed." Throughout the Scriptures, the ser- 



SERMON. • 153 



vants of God are required to be confident and coura- 
geous in their work and exertions for the advancement 
of his kingdom, and without confidence and courage 
who will make proper exertions to destroy the king- 
dom of Satan, who has so long been loved and served 
and worshipped by the nations as god of the world ? 
Without faith and confidence in God, no one will 
rise and exert himself against the millions and mil- 
lions of stupid and stubborn transgressors who open 
their mouths against the heavens and defy the ven- 
geance of the Almighty. Besides, legions of apostate 
angels are engaged with restless malice and subtlety 
to oppose and injure and defeat the faithful servants 
of God. Surely, then, no proper exertions will ever 
be made to turn this sinful and wretched world to 
the service of the only living and true God without 
a spirit of firm and joyful confidence. 

Respecting this great and mighty object, hav- 
ing shown how exertions ought to be made for the 
accomplishment of the objects under consideration, it 
is to show why every person should exert himself for 
their accomplishment. Why should you, my hearers, 
have any regard to yourselves, either in respect to 
your temporal or your eternal interests ? Why should 
you have any regard to your fellow men, either in 
respect to their temporal or eternal interests ? Why 



154 THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

should you have any regard to your Creator, who is a 
being of eternal and unbounded perfection and bless- 
edness ? The very reason which should induce you to 
have a proper respect for your Creator, your fellow 
men, and yourselves will show you why every person 
ought to exert himself for the objects which are to be 
accomplished for the glory of God among the nations 
of the earth. In order to secure to himself the favor 
of his holy Creator, David said to Solomon, " Arise 
and be doing, and the Lord be with thee." Yes, the 
Lord will be with all who exert themselves to work 
for his kingdom and glory on the earth. He will in- 
struct and strengthen and comfort their hearts through 
all the changes and trials of this life. He will be 
their hope and joy in death. He will be their God, 
and reward all his saints, in the final judgment, with 
everlasting life. He will be the glory of their souls 
in the kingdom of heaven. 

If any person will secure the favor of God, let 
him make exertions for the enlargement of His 
kingdom on earth ; for without making such exertions 
no person can enjoy the love of God in this life or 
at death, in the final judgment or in eternity. 
" Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye 
bitterly the inhabitants thereof ; because they came 
not to the help of the Lord, against the mighty." 



SERMON. I 5 5 



So the curse of God rests upon every person who 
does not come to the help of the Lord against his 
numerous and powerful enemies. God says to the 
Church, " The nation and kingdom that will not 
serve thee shall perish ; yea, those nations shall be 
utterly wasted." Will God destroy every nation that 
does not help his cause on the earth, and can you 
suppose that any individual of the same character can 
escape destruction ? Is any person disposed to say 
to the Lord, " Jesus Christ has said, ' Whosoever be- 
lieveth in him shall be saved ' ? " It is written, " What 
doth it profit though a man say he hath faith, and 
have not works ? can faith save him ? " " Wilt thou 
know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead ? " 
No person has any reason to think he has true faith 
in Christ, or that he shall be saved, any farther than 
he is engaged to promote His cause on earth. 

Every person, then, who will have God with him and 
not against him must forever go forward in the work 
of God. He must rise and be doing His holy will. 
And it is certainly the will of God that his gospel 
should be published among all nations, and the earth 
be filled with his glory. 



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